Mark 7:28

The woman said, “Yes, Teacher, you are right about that, but while those children are eating, they drop bits of food on the ground and the dogs eat it.”

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In The King James Version

And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children’s crumbs.

In Context

27Jesus said to her, “Listen to me. You do not take your children's food and give it to your dogs, do you? You let your children eat as much as they want to and then you give the rest to the dogs.”

29Jesus said, “That is a good answer. You can go home now, that bad spirit has gone out of your daughter.”

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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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