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20 These are what defile; but there is no spiritual defilement from eating without first going through the ritual of ceremonial handwashing!”

21 Jesus then left that part of the country and walked the fifty miles to Tyre and Sidon.[a]

22 A woman from Canaan who was living there came to him, pleading, “Have mercy on me, O Lord, King David’s Son! For my daughter has a demon within her, and it torments her constantly.”

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 15:21 walked the fifty miles, implied; literally, “withdrew into the parts of Tyre and Sidon.”

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