began to ask Him about this figure of speech.
007:018 "Have *you* also so little understanding?" He replied;
"do you not understand that anything whatever that enters
a man from outside cannot make him unclean,
007:019 because it does not go into his heart, but into his stomach,
and passes away ejected from him?" By these words Jesus
pronounced all kinds of food clean.
007:020 "What comes out of a man," He added, "that it is which
makes him unclean.
007:021 For from within, out of men's hearts, their evil purposes proceed--
fornication, theft, murder, adultery,
007:022 covetousness, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, envy,
reviling, pride, reckless folly:
007:023 all these wicked things come out from within and make
a man unclean."
007:024 Then He rose and left that place and went into the neighbourhood
of Tyre and Sidon. Here He entered a house and wished no
one to know it, but He could not escape observation.
007:025 Forthwith a woman whose little daughter was possessed by a foul
spirit heard of Him, and came and flung herself at His feet.
007:026 She was a Gentile woman, a Syro-phoenician by nation:
and again and again she begged Him to expel the demon
from her daughter.
007:027 "Let the children first eat all they want," He said;
"it is not right to take the children's bread and throw it
to the dogs."
007:028 "True, Sir," she replied, "and yet the dogs under the table
eat the children's scraps."
007:029 "For those words of yours, go home," He replied; "the demon
has gone out of your daughter."