Matthew 15:26
“It's not right to take the children's food and throw it to the dogs,” Jesus told her.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children’s bread, and to cast it to dogs.
In Context
25But the woman came and kneeled before him, and said, “Lord, please help me!”
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.
Acts 22:21The Lord told me, ‘Leave now, for I am sending you far away to the foreigners.’”
Galatians 2:15We may be Jews by birth, and not ‘sinners’ like the foreigners,
Philippians 3:2Watch out for those dogs! Watch out for those who do evil! Watch out for those mutilators!
Matthew Henry on Matthew 15:22-29
The Canaanite's Daughter Healed. 21 Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon. 22 And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou Son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil. 23 But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us. 24 But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel. 25 Then came… Read the whole commentary →