Mark 7:27

Who said to her: suffer first the children to be filled: for it is not good to take the bread of the children and cast it to the dogs.

Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)

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

26For the woman was a Gentile, a Syrophenician born. And she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter.

28But she answered and said to him: Yea, Lord; for the whelps also eat under the table of the crumbs of the children.

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Cross References

Matthew 7:6Give not that which is holy to dogs; neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turning upon you, they tear you.

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

Romans 15:8For I say that Christ Jesus was minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers: Minister of the circumcision... That is, executed his office and ministry towards the Jews, the people of the circumcision.

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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