20 These are the things that defile a person; but eating with unwashed hands does not defile a person.”(A)

A Gentile Mother’s Faith

21 When Jesus left there,(B) he withdrew to the area of Tyre and Sidon.(C) 22 Just then a Canaanite woman from that region came and kept crying out,[a] “Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David! My daughter is severely tormented by a demon.”(D)

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  1. 15:22 Other mss read and cried out to him

20 These are what defile a person;(A) but eating with unwashed hands does not defile them.”

The Faith of a Canaanite Woman(B)

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

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