Mark 7:13-27

¹³setting aside the word of God for your tradition that ye delivered; and many such like things ye do.'

¹⁴And having called near all the multitude, he said to them, 'Hearken to me, ye all, and understand;

¹⁵there is nothing from without the man entering into him that is able to defile him, but the things coming out from him, those are the things defiling the man.

¹⁶If any hath ears to hear — let him hear.'

¹⁷And when he entered into a house from the multitude, his disciples were questioning him about the simile,

¹⁸and he saith to them, 'So also ye are without understanding! Do ye not perceive that nothing from without entering into the man is able to defile him?

¹⁹because it doth not enter into his heart, but into the belly, and into the drain it doth go out, purifying all the meats.'

²⁰And he said — 'That which is coming out from the man, that doth defile the man;

²¹for from within, out of the heart of men, the evil reasonings do come forth, adulteries, whoredoms, murders,

²²thefts, covetous desires, wickedness, deceit, arrogance, an evil eye, evil speaking, pride, foolishness;

²³all these evils do come forth from within, and they defile the man.'

²⁴And from thence having risen, he went away to the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and having entered into the house, he wished none to know, and he was not able to be hid,

²⁵for a woman having heard about him, whose little daughter had an unclean spirit, having come, fell at his feet, —

²⁶and the woman was a Greek, a Syro-Phenician by nation — and was asking him, that the demon he may cast forth out of her daughter.

²⁷And Jesus said to her, 'Suffer first the children to be filled, for it is not good to take the children's bread, and to cast it to the little dogs.'