Mark 7:27

"Let the children be filled first," he said to her. "It is unseemly to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs."

Montgomery New Testament

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(the woman was a Greek, a Syro-phoenician by race), and again and again she begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter.

28"True, Master," she answered, "but the dogs under the table do pick up the children’s crumbs."

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Cross References

Matthew 7:6"Do not give what is holy to the dogs, nor cast your pearls before swine; lest in turn they trample them under their feet, and then turn and attack you.

Matthew 15:23But he answered her not a word. Then the disciples came up and kept beseeching him. "Send her away," they said, "because she wails after us."

Romans 15:8For I say that Christ has been made a minister of the Circumcision the people of Israel, in vindication of God’s truth, so that he may confirm the promises given to our forefathers;

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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