Mark 7:27
“First let the children eat until they're full,” Jesus replied. “It's not right to take the children's food and throw it to the dogs.”
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28“True, sir,” she said, “but even the dogs under the table eat the scraps the children leave.”
Cross References
Matthew 7:6Don't give dogs what's holy. Don't throw your pearls to pigs. That way the pigs won't trample them underfoot, and the dogs won't turn and attack you.
Matthew 15:23But Jesus didn't reply at all. His disciples came to him and told him, “Tell her to stop following us. All her shouting is really annoying!”
Romans 15:8I maintain that Christ came as a servant to the Jews to show God tells the truth, keeping the promises he made to their forefathers.
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 →