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And when He had entered into the house away from the people, His disciples asked Him concerning the parable.
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And He said unto them, "Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive that whatsoever thing from outside entereth into a man, it cannot defile him,
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because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly and goeth out into the drain, thereby purging all meats?"
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And He said, "That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.
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For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
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thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
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all these evil things come from within and defile the man."
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And from thence He arose and went into the region of Tyre and Sidon, and entered into a house, and would have no man know about it; but He could not be hid.
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For a certain woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of Him, and came and fell at His feet.
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The woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by nation, and she besought Him that He would cast forth the devil out of her daughter.
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But Jesus said unto her, "Let the children first be filled, for it is not meet to take the children's bread and to cast it unto the dogs."