15aThen Peter answered and said to Him, “Explain this parable to us.”
16 So Jesus said, a“Are you also still without understanding?
17Do you not yet understand that awhatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and is eliminated?
18But athose things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man.
19aFor out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.
20These are the things which defile a man, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man.”
A Gentile Shows Her Faith
21aThen Jesus went out from there and departed to the region of Tyre and Sidon.
22 And behold, a woman of Canaan came from that region and cried out to Him, saying, “Have mercy on me, O Lord, aSon of David! My daughter is severely demon-possessed.”
23 But He answered her not a word. And His disciples came and urged Him, saying, “Send her away, for she cries out after us.”
24 But He answered and said, a“I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”
25 Then she came and worshiped Him, saying, “Lord, help me!”
26 But He answered and said, “It is not good to take the children’s bread and throw it to the little adogs.”
27 And she said, “Yes, Lord, yet even the little dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table.”
28 Then Jesus answered and said to her, “O woman, agreat is your faith! Let it be to you as you desire.” And her daughter was healed from that very hour.
Jesus Heals Great Multitudes
29aJesus departed from there, bskirted the Sea of Galilee, and went up on the mountain and sat down there.
30aThen great multitudes came to Him, having with them the lame, blind, mute,1 maimed, and many others; and they laid them down at Jesus’ bfeet, and He healed them.
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