What happensPermalink
Jesus rebukes the Pharisees for corrupting Moses’s laws and corrects them. Jesus heals the Syrophoenician woman’s daughter and the deaf Gentile in the Decapolis.
Why it mattersPermalink
Jesus reveals the Kingdom of God in two ways: He shifts the focus of cleanliness from external to internal, and He heals two Gentiles in spectacular ways.
Key versePermalink
“There is nothing outside a person that by going into him can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him.”