Mark 7:27
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New International Version (©1984)
"First let the children eat all they want," he told her, "for it is not right to take the children's bread and toss it to their dogs."

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
And He was saying to her, "Let the children be satisfied first, for it is not good to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs."

International Standard Version (©2008)
But he kept telling her, "First let the children be filled. It is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the puppies."

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Jesus said to her, "First, let the children eat all they want. It's not right to take the children's food and throw it to the dogs."

King James Bible
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.

American King James Version
But Jesus said to her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to the dogs.

American Standard Version
And he said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children's bread and cast it to the dogs.

Bible in Basic English
And he said to her, Let the children first have their food: for it is not right to take the children's bread and give it to the dogs.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who said to her: Suffer first the children to be filled: for it is not good to take the bread of the children, and cast it to the dogs.

Darby Bible Translation
But Jesus said to her, Suffer the children to be first filled; for it is not right to take the children's bread and cast it to the dogs.

English Revised Version
And he said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children's bread and cast it to the dogs.

Webster's Bible Translation
But Jesus said to her, Let the children first be satisfied: for it is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to the dogs.

Weymouth New Testament
"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."

World English Bible
But Jesus said to her, "Let the children be filled first, for it is not appropriate to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs."

Young's Literal Translation
And Jesus said to her, 'Suffer first the children to be filled, for it is not good to take the children's bread, and to cast it to the little dogs.'

Geneva Study Bible

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 {o} dogs.

(o) Dog here signifies a little dog, and he uses this term that he may seem to speak more reproachfully.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

27. But Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be filled-"Is there hope for me here?" "Filled FIRST?" "Then my turn, it seems, is coming!-but then, 'The CHILDREN first?' Ah! when, on that rule, shall my turn ever come!" But ere she has time for these ponderings of His word, another word comes to supplement it.

for it is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it unto the dogs-Is this the death of her hopes? Nay, rather it is life from the dead. Out of the eater shall come forth meat (Jud 14:14). "At evening-time, it shall be light" (Zec 14:7). "Ah! I have it now. Had He kept silence, what could I have done but go unblest? but He hath spoken, and the victory is mine."

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

7:24-30 Christ never put any from him that fell at his feet, which a poor trembling soul may do. As she was a good woman, so a good mother. This sent her to Christ. His saying, Let the children first be filled, shows that there was mercy for the Gentiles, and not far off. She spoke, not as making light of the mercy, but magnifying the abundance of miraculous cures among the Jews, in comparison with which a single cure was but as a crumb. Thus, while proud Pharisees are left by the blessed Saviour, he manifests his compassion to poor humbled sinners, who look to him for children's bread. He still goes about to seek and save the lost.


Mark 7:26 Now the woman was a Gentile, of the Syrophoenician race. And she kept asking Him to cast the demon out of her daughter.
Mark 7:28 But she answered and said to Him, "Yes, Lord, but even the dogs under the table feed on the children's crumbs." (NASB ©1995)

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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.

Let. Mt 7:6 10:5 15:23-28 Ac 22:21 Ro 15:8 Eph 2:12

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