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Mark 7:24-30
24 And from there he arose and went away to the region of Tyre and Sidon.
And he entered a house, and would not have any one know it; yet he could
not be hid. 25 But immediately a woman, whose little daughter was possessed
by an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell down at his feet.
26 Now the woman was a Greek, a Syrophoeni’cian by birth. And she begged
him to cast the demon out of her daughter. 27 And he said to her, “Let
the children first be fed, for it is not right to take the children’s bread
and throw it to the dogs.” 28 But she answered him, “Yes, Lord; yet even
the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.” 29 And he said to
her, “For this saying you may go your way; the demon has left your daughter.”
30 And she went home, and found the child lying in bed, and the demon gone.

Mark 7:14-23
14 And he called the people to him again, and said to them, “Hear me,
all of  you, and understand: 15 there is nothing outside a man which
by going into him can defile him; but the things which come out of a man
are what defile him.” 17 And when he had entered the house, and left the
people, his disciples asked him about the parable. 18 And he said to them,
“Then are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever
goes into a man from outside cannot defile him, 19 since it enters, not
his heart but his stomach, and so passes on?” (Thus he declared all foods
clean.) 20 And he said, “What comes out of a man is what defiles a man.
21 For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, fornication,
theft, murder, adultery, 22 coveting, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness,
envy, slander, pride, foolishness. 23 All these evil things come from within,
and they defile a man.”

Mark 7:1-13
1 Now when the Pharisees gathered together to him, with some of the
scribes, who had come from Jerusalem, 2 they saw that some of his disciples
ate with hands defiled, that is, unwashed. 3 (For the Pharisees, and all
the Jews, do not eat unless they wash their hands, observing the tradition
of the elders; 4 and when they come from the market place, they do not
eat unless they purify themselves; and there are many other traditions
which they observe, the washing of cups and pots and vessels of bronze.)
5 And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why do your disciples not
live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with hands 
defiled?” 6 And he said to them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites,
as it is written, `This people honors me with their lips, but their heart
is far from me; 7 in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the
precepts of men.’ 8 You leave the commandment of God, and hold fast the
tradition of men.” 9 And he said to them, “You have a fine way of rejecting
the commandment of God, in order to keep your tradition! 10 For Moses said,
`Honor your father and your mother’; and, `He who speaks evil of father
or mother, let him surely die’; 11 but you say, `If a man tells his father
or his mother, What you would have gained from me is Corban’ (that is,
given to God)