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He said to them, "Then do you also fail to understand? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile,
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since it enters, not the heart but the stomach, and goes out into the sewer?" (Thus he declared all foods clean.)
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And he said, "It is what comes out of a person that defiles.
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For it is from within, from the human heart, that evil intentions come: fornication, theft, murder,
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adultery, avarice, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, envy, slander, pride, folly.
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All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person."
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From there he set out and went away to the region of Tyre. He entered a house and did not want anyone to know he was there. Yet he could not escape notice,
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but a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit immediately heard about him, and she came and bowed down at his feet.
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Now the woman was a Gentile, of Syrophoenician origin. She begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter.
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He said to her, "Let the children be fed first, for it is not fair to take the children's food and throw it to the dogs."
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But she answered him, "Sir, even the dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs."