Mark 7:27

And he said to her: Let the children first be filled; for it is not good to take the children's bread and cast it to the dogs.

The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)

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

26The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast out the demon from her daughter.

28And she answered and said to him: Yea, Lord; for the 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 the dogs, nor cast your pearls before the swine; lest they trample them with their feet, and turn and rend you.

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

Romans 15:8For I say that Jesus Christ has been made a minister of the circumcision, for the sake of God's truth, 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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