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Mark 7:27
Mark 7:27 is verse 27 of Mark chapter 7, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
“First let the children have their fill,” He said. “For it is not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to the dogs.”
King James Version
But Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children’s bread, and to cast it unto the dogs.
World English Bible
But Jesus said to her, “Let the children be filled first, for it is not appropriate to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”
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Mark 7:25–29 · Berean Standard Bible
25 Instead, a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit soon heard about Jesus, and she came and fell at His feet.
26 Now she was a Greek woman of Syrophoenician origin, and she kept asking Jesus to drive the demon out of her daughter.
27 “First let the children have their fill,” He said. “For it is not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to the dogs.”
28 “Yes, Lord,” she replied, “even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.”
29 Then Jesus told her, “Because of this answer, you may go. The demon has left your daughter.”
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Matthew 7:6Do not give dogs what is holy; do not throw your pearls before swine. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and then turn and tear you to pieces.
Matthew 10:5These twelve Jesus sent out with the following instructions: “Do not go onto the road of the Gentiles or enter any town of the Samaritans.
Matthew 15:23But Jesus did not answer a word. So His disciples came and urged Him, “Send her away, for she keeps crying out after us.”
Matthew 15:24He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”
Matthew 15:25The woman came and knelt before Him. “Lord, help me!” she said.
Matthew 15:26But Jesus replied, “It is not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to the dogs.”
Matthew 15:27“Yes, Lord,” she said, “even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their master’s table.”
Matthew 15:28“O woman,” Jesus answered, “your faith is great! Let it be done for you as you desire.” And her daughter was healed from that very hour.
Acts 22:21Then He said to me, ‘Go! I will send you far away to the Gentiles.’”
Romans 15:8For 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 patriarchs,
Ephesians 2:12remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.