Mark 7:27

But Jesus said to her, “Let the children first be filled, for it is not good to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs.”

Text-Critical English NT

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

26(This woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by birth.) She asked Jesus to cast the demon out of her daughter.

28She answered him, “ Yes, Lord, yet even the dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs.”

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Cross References

Matthew 7:6“Do not give what is holy to dogs, and do not throw your pearls before pigs, lest they trample them with their feet, and then turn and tear you to pieces.

Matthew 15:23But he did not respond to her at all. So his disciples came to him and urged him, “Send her away, for she is crying out after us.”

Romans 15:8Now I say that Christ Jesus has become a servant to the circumcised on behalf of the truth of God in order to confirm the promises that were made to the fathers,

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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