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And he said to them, "Then are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a man from outside cannot defile him,
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since it enters, not his heart but his stomach, and so passes on?" (Thus he declared all foods clean.)
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And he said, "What comes out of a man is what defiles a man.
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For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, fornication, theft, murder, adultery,
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coveting, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, envy, slander, pride, foolishness.
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All these evil things come from within, and they defile a man."
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And from there he arose and went away to the region of Tyre and Sidon. And he entered a house, and would not have any one know it; yet he could not be hid.
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But immediately a woman, whose little daughter was possessed by an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell down at his feet.
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Now the woman was a Greek, a Syrophoeni'cian by birth. And she begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter.
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And he said to her, "Let the children first be fed, for it is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs."
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But she answered him, "Yes, Lord; yet even the dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs."
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And he said to her, "For this saying you may go your way; the demon has left your daughter."
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And she went home, and found the child lying in bed, and the demon gone.
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Then he returned from the region of Tyre, and went through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, through the region of the Decap'olis.
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And they brought to him a man who was deaf and had an impediment in his speech; and they besought him to lay his hand upon him.
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And taking him aside from the multitude privately, he put his fingers into his ears, and he spat and touched his tongue;
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and looking up to heaven, he sighed, and said to him, "Eph'phatha," that is, "Be opened."
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And his ears were opened, his tongue was released, and he spoke plainly.
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And he charged them to tell no one; but the more he charged them, the more zealously they proclaimed it.