18 And he said to them, “So are you also without understanding? Do you not understand that everything that is outside that goes into a person is not able to defile him?
19 For it does not enter into his heart but into his stomach, and goes out into the latrine”—thus declaring all foods clean.
20 And he said, “What comes out of a person, that defiles a person.
21 For from within, from the heart of people, come evil plans, sexual immoralities, thefts, murders,
22 adulteries, acts of greed, malicious deeds, deceit, licentiousness, envy, abusive speech, pride, foolishness.
23 All these evil things come from within and defile a person.”
24 And from there he set out and went to the region of Tyre. And when he entered into a house, he wanted no one to know, and yet he was not able to escape notice.