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Let the person who has ears listen!"
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When he had left the people and gone home, his disciples asked him about this illustration.
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Jesus said to them, "Don't you understand? Don't you know that whatever goes into a person from the outside can't make him unclean?
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It doesn't go into his thoughts but into his stomach and then into a toilet." (By saying this, Jesus declared all foods acceptable.)
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He continued, "It's what comes out of a person that makes him unclean.
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Evil thoughts, sexual sins, stealing, murder,
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adultery, greed, wickedness, cheating, shameless lust, envy, cursing, arrogance, and foolishness come from within a person.
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All these evils come from within and make a person unclean."
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Jesus left that place and went to the territory of Tyre. He didn't want anyone to know that he was staying in a house there. However, it couldn't be kept a secret.
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A woman whose little daughter had an evil spirit heard about Jesus. She went to him and bowed down.
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The woman happened to be Greek, born in Phoenicia in Syria. She asked him to force the demon out of her daughter.