Mark 7:28

But she answered him, “Yes, Lord. Yet even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.”

World English Bible
Learn

Your notes

Private to you. Anything you write on this verse, here or while reading, shows up here and in My study.

Other translations

WEBBE

But she answered him, “Yes, Lord. Yet even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.”

BSB

“Yes, Lord,” she replied, “even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.”

KJV

And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children’s crumbs.

ASV

But she answered and saith unto him, Yea, Lord; even the dogs under the table eat of the children’s crumbs.

BBE

But she said to him in answer, Yes, Lord: even the dogs under the table take the bits dropped by the children.

Original Greek

Look up a word

Tap a word to see what it means and everywhere else it's used.

ἡ hē (the) G3588 δὲ de But G1161 ἀπεκρίθη apekrithē she answered G611 καὶ kai and G2532 λέγει legei she says G3004 αὐτῷ autō to Him G846 ναὶ nai yes G3483 κύριε kurie Lord G2962 καὶ kai even G2532 γὰρ gar for G1063 τὰ ta the G3588 κυνάρια kunaria dogs G2952 ὑποκάτω hupokatō under G5270 τῆς tēs the G3588 τραπέζης trapezēs table G5132 ἐσθίουσιν esthiousin eat G2068 ἀπὸ apo of G575 τῶν tōn the G3588 ψιχίων psichiōn crumbs G5589 τῶν tōn of the G3588 παιδίων.¶ paidiōn children G3813

The early church

(Vict. Ant. e Cat. in Marc.) For the woman did not take it ill, but with much reverence assented to what the Lord had said. Wherefore it goes on, And she answered and said unto him, Truth, Lord, but the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs. (Vict. Ant. e Cat. in Marc.) Her placing herself therefore in the rank of dogs is a mark of her reverence; as if she said, I hold it as a favour to be even in the position of a dog, and to eat not from another table, but from that of the Master himself.
Pseudo-Chrysostom · d. 500Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)
As if she had said, The Jews have the whole of that bread which comes down from heaven, and Thy benefits also; I ask for the crumbs, that is, a small portion of the benefit.
Theophylact of Ohrid · d. 1107Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)
Mystically however the Gentile woman, who prays for her daughter, is our mother the Church of Rome. Her daughter afflicted with a devil, is the barbarian western race, which by faith hath been turned from a dog into a sheep. She desires to take the crumbs of spiritual understanding, not the unbroken bread of the letter.
Pseudo-Jerome · d. 9999Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 24–30

Christ never put any from him that fell at his feet, which a poor trembling soul may do. As she was a good woman, so a good mother. This sent her to Christ. His saying, Let the children first be filled, shows that there was mercy for the Gentiles, and not far off. She spoke, not as making light of the mercy, but magnifying the abundance of miraculous cures among the Jews, in comparison with which a single cure was but as a crumb. Thus, while proud Pharisees are left by the blessed Saviour, he manifests his compassion to poor humbled sinners, who look to him for children's bread. He still goes about to seek and save the lost.

Read Matthew Henry on Mark 7 →

Parallel passages

1

The same words or events elsewhere.

Matthew 15:27

Cross-references

12

People & places

Jesus

Topics

Frugality

Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Hebrew and Greek data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. Library: sources.