Jesus clarifies what is actually required to make us clean. It’s about our hearts. It’s from our heart that we choose to live according to God’s ways or choose a more destructive path.
Now, as followers of Jesus, we do not have the same food laws as the Israelites while they were trying to survive in the wilderness.
In contrast to the resistance shown by the religious leaders, Matthew shows how open hearted a Gentile woman was towards faith.
We are starting to see people who were not looking for the Jewish Messiah now coming to him hoping he would rescue them!
