Mark 7:13-27

¹³By means of this tradition of yours that you pass down, you make God's word null and void. You do many other things like this.”

¹⁴Jesus called the crowd to him again and told them, “Please, everyone listen to me and understand.

¹⁵It's not what's on the outside and goes into you that makes you unclean. It's what comes out that makes you unclean.”

¹⁷Then Jesus went inside to escape the crowd, and his disciples asked him about his illustration.

¹⁸“Don't you understand it either?” he asked them. “Don't you see that what you eat doesn't make you unclean?

¹⁹It doesn't go into your mind, but into your stomach, and then passes out of the body. So all foods are ceremonially ‘clean.’

²⁰It's what comes out of you that makes you unclean.

²¹It's from the inside, from people's minds, that evil thoughts come: sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,

²²greed, malice, deceit, indecency, envy, slander, pride, thoughtlessness—

²³all these evils come from inside and defile people.”

²⁴Then Jesus left and went to the region of Tyre. He didn't want anyone to know he was staying in a house there, but he couldn't keep it a secret.

²⁵As soon as a woman, whose little daughter had an evil spirit, heard about him she came and fell at his feet.

²⁶The woman was Greek, born in Syrophoenicia. She begged Jesus to drive out the demon from her daughter.

²⁷“First let the children eat until they're full,” Jesus replied. “It's not right to take the children's food and throw it to the dogs.”