Mark 7:13-27

¹³making the Word of God of no effect by your tradition that you have handed down. Yes, you do many such things.”

¹⁴Upon summoning the larger crowd He said to them: “Hear me, everyone, and understand:

¹⁵There is nothing outside a man that can defile him by going into him; rather, the things that come out of him, those are the ones that defile him.

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

¹⁷When He had entered a house away from the crowd, His disciples started to question Him about the parable.

¹⁸So He said to them: “Can you really be without understanding? Don't you perceive that nothing that enters a man from outside can defile him,

¹⁹because it doesn't go into his heart, but into his stomach, which then expels the impure aspects of the food?”

²⁰He went on to say: “That which comes out of a man, that is what defiles him.

²¹Because from within, out of men's hearts, the evil designs proceed—adulteries, fornications, murders,

²²thefts, covetings, malignancies; deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, arrogance, foolishness—

²³all these malignant things proceed from within and defile the man.”

²⁴Then He got ready and went from there into the region of Tyre and Sidon. He went into a house and did not want anyone to know it, but He could not escape notice.

²⁵In fact, as soon as she heard about Him, a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit came and fell at His feet.

²⁶Now the woman was a Greek, a Syro-Phoenecian by birth, and she kept asking Him to cast the demon out of her daughter.

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