KJV King James Version
And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children’s crumbs.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Mark 7:28
And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children’s crumbs.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
“Yes, Lord,” she replied, “even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.”
WEB World English Bible
But she answered him, “Yes, Lord. Yet even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.”
ASV American Standard Version
But she answered and saith unto him, Yea, Lord; even the dogs under the table eat of the children’s crumbs.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And she answered and saith to him, ‘Yes, sir; for the little dogs also under the table do eat of the children’s crumbs.’
Surrounding context — Mark 7
25 For a [certain] woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet:
26 The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter.
27 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.
28 And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children’s crumbs.
29 And he said unto her, For this saying go thy way; the devil is gone out of thy daughter.
30 And when she was come to her house, she found the devil gone out, and her daughter laid upon the bed.
31 And again, departing from the coasts of Tyre and Sidon, he came unto the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the coasts of Decapolis.
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ἡG3588 · hothe/this/whoδὲG1161 · dethenἀπεκρίθηG611 · apokrinōto answerκαὶG2532 · kaiandλέγειG3004 · legōto sayαὐτῷ·G846 · autosit/s/heκύριε,G2962 · kurioslord: GodκαὶG2532 · kaiandτὰG3588 · hothe/this/whoκυνάριαG2952 · kunarionlittle dogὑποκάτωG5270 · hupokatōunderτῆςG3588 · hothe/this/whoτραπέζηςG5132 · trapezatableἐσθίουσινG2068 · esthiōto eatἀπὸG575 · apoaway fromτῶνG3588 · hothe/this/whoψιχίωνG5589 · psichion, psixcrumbτῶνG3588 · hothe/this/whoπαιδίων.¶G3813 · paidionchild
Cross-references
Romans 10:12For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.Romans 3:29[Is he] the God of the Jews only? [is he] not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:Acts 11:17-18Forasmuch then as God gave them the like gift as [he did] unto us, who believed on the Lord Jesus Christ; what was I, that I could withstand God?Isaiah 45:22Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I [am] God, and [there is] none else.Luke 15:30-32But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.Luke 7:6-8Then Jesus went with them. And when he was now not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to him, saying unto him, Lord, trouble not thyself: for I am not worthy that thou shouldest enter under my roof:Psalm 145:16Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing.Ephesians 3:8Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;Ephesians 2:12-14That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:Isaiah 49:6And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.Matthew 5:45That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.Romans 15:8-9Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises [made] unto the fathers:
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