Matthew 15:27

But she said, “Yes, Lord, but the young dogs also eat from the crumbs that fall from the table of their masters.”

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In The King James Version

And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table.

In Context

26And responding, he said, “It is not good to take the bread of the children and cast it to the dogs.”

28Then Jesus, responding, said to her: “O woman, great is your faith. Let it be done for you just as you wish.” And her daughter was healed from that very hour.

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Cross References

Genesis 32:10I am less than any of your compassions and your truth, which you have fulfilled to your servant. With my staff I crossed over this Jordan. And now I go back with two companies.

Job 42:2I know that you are able to do all things, and that no thoughts are hidden from you.

Ezekiel 16:63So may you remember and be confounded. And it will no longer be for you to open your mouth, because of your shame, when I will have been pacified toward you over all that you have done, says the Lord God.”

Matthew 5:45In this way, you shall be sons of your Father, who is in heaven. He causes his sun to rise upon the good and the bad, and he causes it to rain upon the just and the unjust.

Luke 7:6Then Jesus went with them. And when he was now not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to him, saying: “Lord, do not trouble yourself. For I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof.

Luke 16:21wanting to be filled with the crumbs which were falling from the wealthy man’s table. But no one gave it to him. And even the dogs came and licked his sores.

Matthew Henry on Matthew 15:22-29

The Canaanite's Daughter Healed. 21 Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon. 22 And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou Son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil. 23 But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us. 24 But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel. 25 Then came… Read the whole commentary →

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