14. Leave them alone! They are blind guides. And if the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit.”
15. Then Peter replied to Him, “Explain this parable to us.”
16. “Are even you still lacking in understanding? ” He asked.
17. “Don’t you realize that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and is eliminated?
18. But what comes out of the mouth comes from the heart, and this defiles a man.
19. For from the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual immoralities, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies.
20. These are the things that defile a man, but eating with unwashed hands does not defile a man.”
21. When Jesus left there, He withdrew to the area of Tyre and Sidon.
22. Just then a Canaanite woman from that region came and kept crying out, “Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David! My daughter is cruelly tormented by a demon.”
23. Yet He did not say a word to her. So His disciples approached Him and urged Him, “Send her away because she cries out after us.”