Matthew 15:26

He answered, "It is not seemly to take the children’s bread and throw it to the little dogs."

Montgomery New Testament

In The King James Version

But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children’s bread, and to cast it to dogs.

In Context

25But the woman came and knelt to him and said, "Lord, do help me."

27"True, Lord," she said, "but even the little dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their master’s table."

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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.

Acts 22:21"‘Depart,’ he said to me, ‘for I will send you forth, far hence, to the Gentiles.’"

Galatians 2:15"We are Jews by birth, and not ‘Gentile sinners’;

Philippians 3:2Beware of "these dogs," these mischievous workers, beware of the concision!

Matthew Henry on Matthew 15:22-29

The Canaanite's Daughter Healed. 21 Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon. 22 And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou Son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil. 23 But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us. 24 But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel. 25 Then came… Read the whole commentary →

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