Matthew 15:16-22

New International Version

¹⁶ “Are you still so dull?”^(A) Jesus asked them. ¹⁷ “Don’t you see that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then out of the body? ¹⁸ But the things that come out of a person’s mouth come from the heart,^(B) and these defile them. ¹⁹ For out of the heart come evil thoughts—murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.^{(C) 20} These are what defile a person;^(D) but eating with unwashed hands does not defile them.”

The Faith of a Canaanite Woman^(E)

²¹ Leaving that place, Jesus withdrew to the region of Tyre and Sidon.^{(F) 22} A Canaanite woman from that vicinity came to him, crying out, “Lord, Son of David,^(G) have mercy on me! My daughter is demon-possessed and suffering terribly.”^(H)