15. Then Peter said to Him, “Explain this parable to us.”
16. Jesus said, “Are you also still without understanding?
17. Do you not yet understand that whatever enters at the mouth goes into the stomach and is cast out into the sewer?
18. But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile the man.
19. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual immorality, thefts, false witness, and blasphemies.
20. These are the things which defile a man. But to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man.”
21. Then Jesus went from there and departed into the regions of Tyre and Sidon.
22. There, a woman of Canaan came out of the same regions and cried out to Him, saying, “Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David. My daughter is severely possessed by a demon.”
23. But He did not answer her a word. And His disciples came and begged Him, saying, “Send her away, for she cries out after us.”
24. But He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”
25. Then she came and worshipped Him, saying, “Lord, help me.”