Mark 7:27

He said to her, “Let the children first be fed. For it is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs.”

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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

26Now the woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by descent. She begged him to cast out the demon from her daughter.

28But she answered and said to him, “Yes, Lord, even the dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs.”

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Cross References

Matthew 7:6Do not give what is holy to the dogs, and do not throw your pearls in front of the hogs. Otherwise they may trample them underfoot, and then turn and tear you to pieces.

Matthew 15:23But Jesus answered her not a word. His disciples came and begged him, saying, “Send her away, for she is shouting after us.”

Romans 15:8For I say that Christ has been made a servant of the circumcision on behalf of God's truth, in order to confirm the promises given 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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