Mark 7:26

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

The woman was Greek and had been born in the part of Syria known as Phoenicia. She begged Jesus to force the demon out of her daughter.

Cross References

Isaiah 49:12

Then my people will return from distant lands in the north and the west and from the city of Syene.

Matthew 15:22

Suddenly a Canaanite woman from there came out shouting, “Lord and Son of David, have pity on me! My daughter is full of demons.”

Matthew 4:24

News about him spread all over Syria, and people with every kind of sickness or disease were brought to him. Some of them had a lot of demons in them, others were thought to be mad, and still others could not walk. But Jesus healed them all.

Mark 7:25

A woman whose daughter had an evil spirit in her heard where Jesus was. And straight away she came and knelt down at his feet.

Mark 7:27

But Jesus said, “The children must first be fed! It isn't right to take away their food and feed it to dogs.”

Galatians 3:28

Faith in Christ Jesus is what makes each of you equal with each other, whether you are a Jew or a Greek, a slave or a free person, a man or a woman.

Colossians 3:11

It doesn't matter if you are a Greek or a Jew, or if you are circumcised or not. You may even be a barbarian or a Scythian, and you may be a slave or a free person. Yet Christ is all that matters, and he lives in all of us.