Matthew 15:26
24 He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”
25 The woman came and knelt before Him. “Lord, help me!” she said.
But Jesus replied, “It is not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to the dogs.”
27 “Yes, Lord,” she said, “even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their master’s table.”
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.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- But Jesus replied, “It is not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to the dogs.”
- KJV
- But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children’s bread, and to cast it to dogs.
- WEB
- But he answered, “It is not appropriate to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”
- ASV
- And he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children`s bread and cast it to the dogs.
- DARBY
- But he answering said, It is not well to take the bread of the children and cast it to the dogs.
- BLB
- And answering, He said, “It is not good to take the bread of the children and to cast [it] to the dogs.”
- ÅB
- Men han svarte og sa: «Det er ikke rett å ta brødet fra barna og kaste det til de små hundene.»
- OTB
- Han svarte: "Det er ikke rett å ta barnas brød og gi det til hundene."
- B1930
- Men han svarte og sa: Det er ikke rett å ta brødet fra barna og kaste det for de små hunder.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Mark 7:27–28
“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.”
Read in contextMatthew 7:6
Do 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.
Read in contextPhilippians 3:2
Watch out for those dogs, those workers of evil, those mutilators of the flesh!
Read in contextEphesians 2:12
remember 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.
Read in contextGalatians 2:15
We who are Jews by birth and not Gentile “sinners”
Read in contextRevelation 22:15
But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
Read in contextActs 22:21–22
Then He said to me, ‘Go! I will send you far away to the Gentiles.’”
Read in contextRomans 9:4
the people of Israel. Theirs is the adoption as sons; theirs the divine glory and the covenants; theirs the giving of the law, the temple worship, and the promises.
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