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14 so ignore them. They are blind guides leading the blind, and if one blind person guides another, they will both fall into a ditch.”
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Leave them; they are blind guides.If the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit.”
15 Then Peter said to Jesus, “Explain to us the parable that says people aren’t defiled by what they eat.”
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Peter said, “Explain the parable to us.”
16 “Don’t you understand yet?” Jesus asked.
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“Are you still so dull?” Jesus asked them.
17 “Anything you eat passes through the stomach and then goes into the sewer.
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“Don’t you see that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then out of the body?
18 But the words you speak come from the heart—that’s what defiles you.
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But the things that come out of a person’s mouth come from the heart, and these defile them.
19 For from the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, all sexual immorality, theft, lying, and slander.
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For out of the heart come evil thoughts—murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.
20 These are what defile you. Eating with unwashed hands will never defile you.”
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These are what defile a person; but eating with unwashed hands does not defile them.”
21 Then Jesus left Galilee and went north to the region of Tyre and Sidon.
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Leaving that place, Jesus withdrew to the region of Tyre and Sidon.
22 A Gentile woman who lived there came to him, pleading, “Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David! For my daughter is possessed by a demon that torments her severely.”
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A Canaanite woman from that vicinity came to him, crying out, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me! My daughter is demon-possessed and suffering terribly.”
23 But Jesus gave her no reply, not even a word. Then his disciples urged him to send her away. “Tell her to go away,” they said. “She is bothering us with all her begging.”
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Jesus did not answer a word. So his disciples came to him and urged him, “Send her away, for she keeps crying out after us.”
24 Then Jesus said to the woman, “I was sent only to help God’s lost sheep—the people of Israel.”
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He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel.”
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