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When he had left the people and entered the house, his talmidim asked him about the parable.
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He replied to them, "So you too are without understanding? Don't you see that nothing going into a person from outside can make him unclean?
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For it doesn't go into his heart but into his stomach, and it passes out into the latrine." (Thus he declared all foods ritually clean.)
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"It is what comes out of a person," he went on, "that makes him unclean.
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For from within, out of a person's heart, come forth wicked thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,
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greed, malice, deceit, indecency, envy, slander, arrogance, foolishness...
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All these wicked things come from within, and they make a person unclean."
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Next, Yeshua left that district and went off to the vicinity of Tzor and Tzidon. There he found a house to stay in and wanted to remain unrecognized, but keeping hidden proved impossible.
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Instead, a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit in her came to him and fell down at his feet.
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The woman was a Greek, by birth a Syro-phoenician, and she begged him to drive the demon out of her daughter.
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He said, "Let the children be fed first, for it is not right to take the children's food and toss it to their pet dogs."