Mark 7:27

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He said to her, “Let the children be fed first, for it is not fair to take the children's food and throw it to the dogs.”

Cross References

Matthew 10:5

These twelve Jesus sent out with the following instructions: “Go nowhere among the Gentiles, and enter no town of the Samaritans,

Matthew 7:6

“Do not give what is holy to dogs; and do not throw your pearls before swine, or they will trample them under foot and turn and maul you.

Mark 7:26

Now the woman was a Gentile, of Syrophoenician origin. She begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter.

Mark 7:28

But she answered him, “Sir, even the dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs.”

Acts 22:21

Then he said to me, ‘Go, for I will send you far away to the Gentiles.’ ”

Romans 15:8

For I tell you that Christ has become a servant of the circumcised on behalf of the truth of God in order that he might confirm the promises given to the patriarchs,

Ephesians 2:12

remember that you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.