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And when he had gone into the house away from all the people, his disciples put questions to him about the saying.
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And he said to them, Have even you so little wisdom? Do you not see that whatever goes into a man from outside is not able to make him unclean,
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Because it goes not into the heart but into the stomach, and goes out with the waste? He said this, making all food clean.
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And he said, That which comes out of the man, that makes the man unclean.
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Because from inside, from the heart of men, come evil thoughts and unclean pleasures,
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The taking of goods and of life, broken faith between husband and wife, the desire of wealth, wrongdoing, deceit, sins of the flesh, an evil eye, angry words, pride, foolish acts:
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All these evil things come from inside, and make the man unclean.
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And he went away from there to the country of Tyre and Sidon. And he went into a house, desiring that no man might have knowledge of it: and he was not able to keep it secret.
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But a woman, whose little daughter had an unclean spirit, having had news of him, came straight away and went down at his feet.
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Now the woman was a Greek, a Syro-phoenician by birth: and she made a request to him that he would send the evil spirit out of her daughter.