Mark 7:27

But Jeshu said to her, Let the children first be filled; for it is not well to take the bread of the children and cast it to the dogs.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

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

26But that woman was a Gentile of Phuniki of Suria, and she prayed of him to cast out the demon from her daughter.

28But she answering said to him, Yes, my Lord, yet the dogs also from beneath the table eat the crumbs of the children.

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Cross References

Matthew 7:6Give not the holy unto dogs, and throw not your precious stones before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.

Matthew 15:23But he did not return her an answer. And the disciples approached and requested from him, saying, Dismiss her, for she crieth after us.

Romans 15:8But I say that Jeshu Meshiha ministered the circumcision, on behalf of the truth of Aloha, that he might confirm the promise of 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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