Mark 7:13-27

¹³You are making the commandment of God void by your tradition which you have handed down. And many similar things you do.”

¹⁴He called the crowd again and said to them, “Listen to me, all of you, and understand.

¹⁵There is nothing from outside of a person that can defile him when it enters into him. It is what comes out of the person that defiles him.”

¹⁷Now when Jesus left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about the parable.

¹⁸Jesus said, “Are you also still without understanding? Do you not see that whatever enters into a person from outside cannot defile him,

¹⁹because it cannot go into his heart, but it goes into his stomach and then passes out into the latrine?” With this statement Jesus declared all foods clean.

²⁰He said, “It is that which comes out of the person that defiles him.

²¹For from within a person, out of the heart, proceed evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder,

²²adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, folly.

²³All these evils come from within, and they are what defile a person.”

²⁴He got up from there and went away to the region of Tyre and Sidon. There he went into a house and he wanted no one to know where he was, but he could not be hidden.

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

²⁶Now the woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by descent. She begged him to cast out the demon from her daughter.

²⁷He said to her, “Let the children first be fed. For it is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs.”