Mark 7:27

Jesus said to her: Permit the children first to be satisfied; for it is not becoming, to take the children's bread and cast it to dogs.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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 Gentile from Phenicia of Syria), and besought him, that he would expel the demon from her daughter.

28And she replied, and said to him: Yes, my Lord: and yet the dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs.

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Cross References

Matthew 7:6Give not a holy thing to dogs: and cast not your pearls before swine; lest they tread them under their feet, and turn and lacerate you.

Matthew 15:23But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and requested of him, and said: Send her away, for she crieth after us.

Romans 15:8Now I say, that Jesus Messiah ministered to the circumcision, in behalf of the truth of God, in order to confirm the promise 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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