Mark 7:27

But Jesus said to her: Let the children be satisfied first; for it is not good to take the children’s bread and throw it to the little dogs.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

But Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children’s bread, and to cast it unto the dogs.

In Context

26(the woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation,) and she besought him to cast the demon out of her daughter.

28She answered and said to him: Yes, Lord; and yet you can help me, for the little dogs under the table eat of the children’s crumbs.

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Cross References

Matthew 7:6Give not that which is holy to dogs, nor throw your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and tear you.

Matthew 15:23But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying: Send her away, for she cries after us.

Romans 15:8Now, I say, that Jesus Christ, as a minister, was of the circumcision for the sake of the truth of God, in order to confirm the promises made to the fathers,

Matthew Henry on Mark 7:25-31

The Syrophenician Woman. 24 And from thence he arose, and went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and entered into a house, and would have no man know it: but he could not be hid. 25 For a certain woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet: 26 The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter. 27 But Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the… Read the whole commentary →

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