Mark 7:28
But she answered and said to him: Yea, Lord; for the whelps also eat under the table of the crumbs of the children.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
29And he said to her: For this saying go thy way, the devil is gone out of thy daughter.
Cross References
Isaiah 49:6And he said: It is a small thing that thou shouldst be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to convert the dregs of Israel. Behold, I have given thee to be the light of the Gentiles, that thou mayst be my salvation even to the farthest part of the earth.
Luke 7:6And Jesus went with them. And when he was now not far from the house, the centurion sent his friends to him, saying: Lord, trouble not thyself; for I am not worthy that thou shouldest enter under my roof.
Acts 11:17If then God gave them the same grace, as to us also who believed in the Lord Jesus Christ; who was I, that could withstand God?
Romans 10:12For there is no distinction of the Jew and the Greek: for the same is Lord over all, rich unto all that call upon him.
Ephesians 2:12That you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the conversation of Israel, and strangers to the testament, having no hope of the promise, and without God in this world.
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 →