Mark 7:27
Good News Translation
But Jesus answered, "Let us first feed the children. It isn't right to take the children's food and throw it to the dogs."

New Revised Standard Version
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.”

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

New American Bible
He said to her, “Let the children be fed first. For it is not right to take the food of the children and throw 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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

Let.

Matthew 7:6 Give not that which is holy to dogs; neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turning upon you, they tear you.

Matthew 10:5 These twelve Jesus sent: commanding them, saying: Go ye not into the way of the Gentiles, and into the city of the Samaritans enter ye not.

Matthew 15:23-28 Who answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying: Send her away, for she crieth after us: . . .

Acts 22:21 And he said to me: Go, for unto the Gentiles afar off will I send thee.

Romans 15:8 For I say that Christ Jesus was minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers:

Ephesians 2:12 That you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the conversation of Israel and strangers to the testament, having no hope of the promise and without God in this world.

Context
The Faith of the Gentile Woman
26For the woman was a Gentile, a Syrophenician born. And she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter. 27Who 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. 28But she answered and said to him: Yea, Lord; for the whelps also eat under the table of the crumbs of the children.…
Cross References
Matthew 15:26
Who answering, said: It is not good to take the bread of the children, and to cast it to the dogs.

Mark 7:26
For the woman was a Gentile, a Syrophenician born. And she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter.

Mark 7:28
But she answered and said to him: Yea, Lord; for the whelps also eat under the table of the crumbs of the children.

Mark 7:26
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