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14 Leave them alone! They are blind leaders. When one blind person leads another, both will fall into the same pit."
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Leave them; they are blind guides.If the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit.”
15 Peter said to him, "Explain this illustration to us."
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Peter said, “Explain the parable to us.”
16 Jesus said, "Don't you understand yet?
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“Are you still so dull?” Jesus asked them.
17 Don't you know that whatever goes into the mouth goes into the stomach and then into a toilet?
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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 whatever goes out of the mouth comes from within, and that's what makes a person unclean.
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But the things that come out of a person’s mouth come from the heart, and these defile them.
19 Evil thoughts, murder, adultery, [other] sexual sins, stealing, lying, and cursing come from within.
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For out of the heart come evil thoughts—murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.
20 These are the things that make a person unclean. But eating without washing one's hands doesn't make a person unclean."
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These are what defile a person; but eating with unwashed hands does not defile them.”
21 Jesus left that place and went 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 Canaanite woman from that territory came [to him] and began to shout, "Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David! My daughter is tormented by a demon."
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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 he did not answer her at all. Then his disciples came to him and urged him, "Send her away. She keeps shouting behind us."
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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 Jesus responded, "I was sent only to the lost sheep of the nation of Israel."
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He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel.”
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