Mark 7:27

And he said to her, Let the children first have their food: for it is not right to take the children's bread and give it to the dogs.

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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

26Now the woman was a Greek, a Syro-phoenician by birth: and she made a request to him that he would send the evil spirit out of her daughter.

28But she said to him in answer, Yes, Lord: even the dogs under the table take the bits dropped by the children.

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Cross References

Matthew 7:6Do not give that which is holy to the dogs, or put your jewels before pigs, for fear that they will be crushed under foot by the pigs whose attack will then be made against you.

Matthew 15:23But he gave her no answer. And his disciples came and said to him, Send her away, for she is crying after us.

Romans 15:8Now I say that Christ has been made a servant of the circumcision to give effect to the undertakings given by God 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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