Mark 7:27
He said to her,“Let the children be satisfied first, for it is not right to take the children’s bread and to throw it to the dogs.”
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- Matt 7:6 : 6 Do not give what is holy to dogs or throw your pearls before pigs; otherwise they will trample them under their feet and turn around and tear you to pieces.
- Matt 10:5 : 5 Jesus sent out these twelve, instructing them as follows:“Do not go on a road that leads to Gentile regions and do not enter any Samaritan town.
- Matt 15:23-28 : 23 But he did not answer her a word. Then his disciples came and begged him,“Send her away, because she keeps on crying out after us.” 24 So he answered,“I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” 25 But she came and bowed down before him and said,“Lord, help me!” 26 “It is not right to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs,” he said. 27 “Yes, Lord,” she replied,“but even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters’ table.” 28 Then Jesus answered her,“Woman, your faith is great! Let what you want be done for you.” And her daughter was healed from that hour.
- Acts 22:21 : 21 Then he said to me,‘Go, because I will send you far away to the Gentiles.’”
- Eph 2:12 : 12 that you were at that time without the Messiah, alienated from the citizenship of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
- Rom 15:8 : 8 For I tell you that Christ has become a servant of the circumcised on behalf of God’s truth to confirm the promises made to the fathers,
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22A Canaanite woman from that area came and cried out,“Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David! My daughter is horribly demon-possessed!”
23But he did not answer her a word. Then his disciples came and begged him,“Send her away, because she keeps on crying out after us.”
24So he answered,“I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”
25But she came and bowed down before him and said,“Lord, help me!”
26“It is not right to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs,” he said.
27“Yes, Lord,” she replied,“but even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters’ table.”
28Then Jesus answered her,“Woman, your faith is great! Let what you want be done for you.” And her daughter was healed from that hour.
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28She answered,“Yes, Lord, but even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.”
29Then he said to her,“Because you said this, you may go. The demon has left your daughter.”
30She went home and found the child lying on the bed, and the demon gone.
31Healing a Deaf Mute Then Jesus went out again from the region of Tyre and came through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee in the region of the Decapolis.
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24A Syrophoenician Woman’s Faith After Jesus left there, he went to the region of Tyre. When he went into a house, he did not want anyone to know, but he was not able to escape notice.
25Instead, a woman whose young daughter had an unclean spirit immediately heard about him and came and fell at his feet.
26The woman was a Greek, of Syrophoenician origin. She asked him to cast the demon out of her daughter.
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6Do not give what is holy to dogs or throw your pearls before pigs; otherwise they will trample them under their feet and turn around and tear you to pieces.
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21who longed to eat what fell from the rich man’s table. In addition, the dogs came and licked his sores.
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6Go instead to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
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4His disciples answered him,“Where can someone get enough bread in this desolate place to satisfy these people?”
5He asked them,“How many loaves do you have?” They replied,“Seven.”
6Then he directed the crowd to sit down on the ground. After he took the seven loaves and gave thanks, he broke them and began giving them to the disciples to serve. So they served the crowd.
7They also had a few small fish. After giving thanks for these, he told them to serve these as well.
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36Send them away so that they can go into the surrounding countryside and villages and buy something for themselves to eat.”
37But he answered them,“You give them something to eat.” And they said,“Should we go and buy bread for two hundred silver coins and give it to them to eat?”
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36He took a little child and had him stand among them. Taking him in his arms, he said to them,
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33The disciples said to him,“Where can we get enough bread in this desolate place to satisfy so great a crowd?”
34Jesus said to them,“How many loaves do you have?” They replied,“Seven– and a few small fish.”
35After instructing the crowd to sit down on the ground,
36he took the seven loaves and the fish, and after giving thanks, he broke them and began giving them to the disciples, who then gave them to the crowds.
37They all ate and were satisfied, and they picked up the broken pieces left over, seven baskets full.
38Not counting children and women, there were four thousand men who ate.
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