Mark 7:13-27

¹³thus nullifying the word of God by your tradition which you have handed down. And many similar things you do.”

¹⁴And having summoned all the crowd, He said to them, “Hear Me, all of you and understand:

¹⁵There is nothing from outside a man, that entering into him, can defile him; but the things which come out of him, those are the things that defile a man.

¹⁶If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear!”

¹⁷When He had entered a house away from the crowd, His disciples were asking Him about the parable.

¹⁸So He said to them, “Are you also without understanding? Do you not understand that everything entering a man from outside cannot defile him,

¹⁹because it does not enter into his heart but into his stomach, and passes into the latrine, thus purifying all foods?”

²⁰And He said, “That which comes out of a man, that defiles a man.

²¹For from within, out of the heart of men, come forth evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,

²²thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, arrogance, foolishness.

²³All these evil things come from within and defile a man.”

²⁴From there He arose and He went away into the region of Tyre and Sidon. And having entered into a house, He wanted no one to know it, but He was not able to escape notice.

²⁵For a woman whose young daughter had an unclean spirit heard about Him, and she came and fell at His feet.

²⁶Now the woman was a Greek, a Syro-Phoenician by race, and she was asking Him to cast the demon out from her daughter.

²⁷But Jesus said to her, “Let the children be filled first, for it is not good to take the children's bread and throw it to the little dogs.”