Mark 7:28
“Yes, Master,” she replied. “Even the dogs under the table do feed on the children’s crumbs.”
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In Context
29“For saying that,” he answered, “you may go. The demon has gone out of your daughter.”
Cross References
Psalms 145:16You yourself open your hand, and fill with your favor all things that live.
Luke 7:6So Jesus went with them. But, when he was no great distance from the house, the centurion sent some friends with the message – “Do not trouble yourself, Sir; for I am unworthy to receive you under my roof.
Acts 11:17Since then, God had given them the very same gift as he gave us when we became believers in Jesus Christ the Master – who was I that I could thwart God?”
Romans 10:12For no distinction is made between the Jew and the Greek, for all have the same Lord, and he is bountiful to all who invoke him.
Ephesians 2:12Remember that you were at that time far from Christ; you were shut out from the citizenship of Israel; you were strangers to the covenants founded on God’s promise; you were in the world without hope and without God.
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 →