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When He had entered a house away from the crowd, His disciples asked Him concerning the parable.
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So He said to them, "Are you thus without understanding also? Do you not perceive that whatever enters a man from outside cannot defile him,
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because it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and is eliminated, thus purifying all foods?"
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And He said, "What comes out of a man, that defiles a man.
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For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
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thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness.
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All these evil things come from within and defile a man."
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From there He arose and went to the region of Tyre and Sidon. And He entered a house and wanted no one to know it, but He could not be hidden.
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For a woman whose young daughter had an unclean spirit heard about Him, and she came and fell at His feet.
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The woman was a Greek, a Syro-Phoenician by birth, and she kept asking Him to cast the demon out of her daughter.
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But Jesus said to her, "Let the children be filled first, for it is not good to take the children's bread and throw it to the little dogs."
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And she answered and said to Him, "Yes, Lord, yet even the little dogs under the table eat from the children's crumbs."
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Then He said to her, "For this saying go your way; the demon has gone out of your daughter."
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And when she had come to her house, she found the demon gone out, and her daughter lying on the bed.
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Again, departing from the region of Tyre and Sidon, He came through the midst of the region of Decapolis to the Sea of Galilee.
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Then they brought to Him one who was deaf and had an impediment in his speech, and they begged Him to put His hand on him.
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And He took him aside from the multitude, and put His fingers in his ears, and He spat and touched his tongue.
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Then, looking up to heaven, He sighed, and said to him, "Ephphatha," that is, "Be opened."
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Immediately his ears were opened, and the impediment of his tongue was loosed, and he spoke plainly.
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Then He commanded them that they should tell no one; but the more He commanded them, the more widely they proclaimed it.
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And they were astonished beyond measure, saying, "He has done all things well. He makes both the deaf to hear and the mute to speak."