Mark 7:28

"True, Sir," she replied, "and yet the dogs under the table eat the children's scraps."

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children’s crumbs.

In Context

27"Let the children first eat all they want," He said; "it is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs."

29"For those words of yours, go home," He replied; "the demon has gone out of your daughter."

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Cross References

Luke 7:6Then Jesus went with them. But when He was not far from the house, the Captain sent friends to Him with the message: "Sir, do not trouble to come. I am not worthy of having you come under my roof;

Acts 11:17"If therefore God gave them the same gift as He gave us when we first believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, why, who was I to be able to thwart God?"

Romans 10:12Jew and Gentile are on precisely the same footing; for the same Lord is Lord over all, and is infinitely kind to all who call upon Him for deliverance.

Ephesians 2:12At that time you were living apart from Christ, estranged from the Commonwealth of Israel, with no share by birth in the Covenants which are based on the Promises, and you had no hope and no God, in all the world.

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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