Mark 7:27

Modern English Version

Jesus said to her, “Let the children first be filled. For it is not fitting to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”

Cross References

Matthew 10:5

These twelve Jesus sent out, and commanded them, saying, “Do not go into the way of the Gentiles, and do not enter any city of the Samaritans.

Matthew 7:6

“Do not give what is holy to the dogs, nor throw your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet and turn around and attack you.

Mark 7:26

The woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by race. And she begged Him to cast the demon out of her daughter.

Mark 7:28

But she answered Him, “Yes, Lord. Yet the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.”

Acts 22:21

“Then He said to me, ‘Depart, for I will send you far away to the Gentiles.’  ”

Romans 15:8

Now I say that Jesus Christ has become a servant to the circumcised on behalf of the truth of God, to confirm the promises made to the patriarchs,

Ephesians 2:12

were at that time apart from Christ, alienated from the citizenship of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, without hope and without God in the world.