KJV King James Version
But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us.
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Matthew 15:23
But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
But Jesus did not answer a word. So His disciples came and urged Him, “Send her away, for she keeps crying out after us.”
WEB World English Bible
But he answered her not a word. His disciples came and begged him, saying, “Send her away; for she cries after us.”
ASV American Standard Version
But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And he did not answer her a word; and his disciples having come to him, were asking him, saying—‘Let her away, because she crieth after us;’
Surrounding context — Matthew 15
20 These are [the things] which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.
21 Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon.
22 And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, [thou] Son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil.
23 But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us.
24 But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
25 Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me.
26 But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children’s bread, and to cast [it] to dogs.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
ὉG3588 · hothe/this/whoδὲG1161 · dethenοὐκG3756 · ounoἀπεκρίθηG611 · apokrinōto answerαὐτῇG846 · autosit/s/heλόγον.G3056 · logoswordκαὶG2532 · kaiandπροσελθόντεςG4334 · proserchomaito come near/agreeοἱG3588 · hothe/this/whoμαθηταὶG3101 · mathētēsdiscipleαὐτοῦG846 · autosit/s/heἠρώτουνG2065 · erōtaōto askαὐτὸνG846 · autosit/s/heλέγοντες·G3004 · legōto sayἀπόλυσονG630 · apoluōto release: releaseαὐτήν,G846 · autosit/s/heὅτιG3754 · hotithat/since: thatκράζειG2896 · krazōto cryὄπισθενG3693 · opisthenafterἡμῶν.¶G3165 · meme
Cross-references
Matthew 14:15And when it was evening, his disciples came to him, saying, This is a desert place, and the time is now past; send the multitude away, that they may go into the villages, and buy themselves victuals.Psalm 28:1[A Psalm] of David. Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, [if] thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.Lamentations 3:8Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.Mark 10:47-48And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out, and say, Jesus, [thou] Son of David, have mercy on me.Genesis 42:7And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.Deuteronomy 8:2And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, [and] to prove thee, to know what [was] in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
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