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Matthew 15:26
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He answered, “It isn’t right to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”
But he answered, and said, It is not meete to take the childrens bread, and to cast it to dogs.
But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs.
And he answered, "It is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs."
Yet He answered and said, "It is not good to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs."
Jesus answered, "It is not right to take the children's bread and give it to the dogs."
And He replied, "It is not good (appropriate, fair) to take the children's bread and throw it to the pet dogs."
And he answered, and said, It is not good to take the childrens bread, and to cast it to whelps.
And He answered and said, "It is not good to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs."
And He answered and said, "It is not good to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs."
But Jesus replied, "It is not right to take the children's bread and toss it to the dogs."
Jesus replied, "It isn't right to take food away from children and feed it to dogs."
He answered, "It is not right to take the children's food and toss it to their pet dogs."
But he answering said, It is not well to take the bread of the children and cast it to the dogs.
Jesus said to her, It is not right to take the children''s bread and throw it to the dogs.
Jesus answered, "It isn't right to take the children's food and throw it to the dogs."
And he answered and said, "It is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs!"
But answering, He said, It is not good to take the bread of the children to throw it to the little dogs.
And he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread and cast it to the dogs.
And he made answer and said, It is not right to take the children's bread and give it to the dogs.
But he answered, "It is not appropriate to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs."
He replied, "It is not rightlawful">[fn] to take the children's bread and throw it to the puppies."Matthew 7:6; Philippians 3:2;">[xr]
Jeshu said to her, It is not proper to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs.
Jesus said to her: It is not proper, to take the bread of the children and throw it to the dogs.
He aunswered, and sayde: it is not meete to take the chyldrens bread, and to cast it to litle dogges.
And he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread and cast it to the dogs.
But he answered, "It is not appropriate to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs."
But he answering said, It is not right, to take the children's bread and cast it to the dogs.
"It is not right," He said, "to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs."
Which answeride, and seide, It is not good to take the breed of children, and caste to houndis.
And he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread and cast it to the dogs.
But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast [it] to dogs.
"It is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs," he said.
But He answered and said, "It is not good to take the children's bread and throw it to the little dogs."
Jesus responded, "It isn't right to take food from the children and throw it to the dogs."
But He said, "It is not right to take children's food and throw it to the dogs."
He answered, "It is not fair to take the children's food and throw it to the dogs."
But, he, answering, said, It is, not seemly, to take the loaf of, the children, and cast, to the little dogs.
Who answering, said: It is not good to take the bread of the children, and to cast it to the dogs.
And he answered, "It is not fair to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs."
He answered and sayde: it is not good to take the chyldrens breed and to cast it to whelpes.
and he answering said, `It is not good to take the children's bread, and to cast to the little dogs.'
He answered & sayde: It is not good, to take the childrens bred, & to cast it vnto dogges.
but he answered, it is not just to take the childrens bread, and throw it to puppies.
He said, "It's not right to take bread out of children's mouths and throw it to dogs."
Jesus said, "It isn't right to take a horse away from a cowboy and give it to a city slicker."
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
It is not: Matthew 7:6, Mark 7:27, Mark 7:28, Acts 22:21, Acts 22:22, Romans 9:4, Galatians 2:15, Ephesians 2:12, Philippians 3:2, Revelation 22:15
dogs: ï²×××¢ ××¥××ס××××¢ [Strong's G2952], "to the little dogs," lap dogs, etc., the diminutive of ××¥×©× [Strong's G2965], a dog. The Jews, while they boasted of being the children of God, gave the name of dogs to the heathen, for their idolatry, etc.
Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 9:8 - a dead dog Isaiah 56:3 - The Lord hath Matthew 8:8 - I am Luke 15:19 - make
Gill's Notes on the Bible
But he answered, and said,.... To the woman, as the Persic version reads it, and the sense requires:
it is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs; which he said, to try her faith the more, and make it the more illustrious; and that not so much from his own sense of things, as in the language of the Jewish people, and which she might not be a stranger to. By "the children", are meant the Jews, to whom the adoption belonged; who, as a nation and people, were the children of God in a large sense; being distinguished by many blessings and favours, which others had not, and being under the more peculiar care and notice of God; not that all of them were the children of God by special grace: by "the bread"; which belonged to them, is meant the external ministry of the word, and the miracles of Christ wrought among them: and particularly such outward favours which related to the good of the bodies of men, by healing their diseases, and dispossessing them of devils: and by "the dogs" are designed the Gentiles, so called by the Jews in a way of contempt, because of their ignorance, idolatry, and impurity. Christ here speaks not his own mind, as if he reproached the Gentiles, and held them in scorn and contempt, but uses the common dialect of the people; and which, this woman, living upon the borders of the Israelitish nation, was acquainted with; so that it was not so shocking and surprising, or quite so discouraging, as it would otherwise have been. The Jewish doctors say k, that the idolatrous Gentiles are not called men, that they are comparable to the beasts or the field l, to oxen, rams, goats m, and asses n: the foetus in the bowels of a Canaanitish servant, they say o,
"ymd hmhb yemb dlwk, "is like the foetus in the bowels of a beast".''
Take the following passage, as an illustration of this, and as a further proof of the Jews calling the Gentiles dogs p.
"A king provides a dinner for the children of his house; whilst they do his will they eat their meat with the king, and he gives to the dogs the part of bones to gnaw; but when the children of the house do not do the king's pleasure, he gives the dogs the dinner, and the bones to them: even so: while the Israelites do the will of their Lord, they eat at the king's table, and the feast is provided for them, and they of their own will give the bones to the Gentiles; but when they do not do the will of their Lord, lo! the feast is ×××××, "for the dogs", and the bones are their's.''
And a little after,
""thou preparest a table before me"; this is the feast of the king; "in the presence of mine enemies"; ××× ×× ××××, "these are the dogs" that sit before the table, looking for their part of the bones.''
In which may be clearly discerned the distinction between children and dogs, and the application of the one to the Jews, and the other to the Gentiles, and the different food that belongs to each: and hence it is easy to see from whom Christ borrowed this expression, and with what view he made use of it.
k T. Bab. Bava Metzia, fol. 114. 2. Zohar in Exod. fol. 35. 4. Tzeror Hammor, fol. 1. 4. l Zohar in Gen. fol. 31. 1. & 34. 1. 2. m Jarchi in Gen. 15. 10. n T. Bab. Kiddushin, fol. 68. 1. o lb. fol. 69. 1. p Zohar in Exod. fol. 63. 1, 2. Vid. Tzeror Hammor, fol. 147. 4.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
This narrative is also found in Mark 7:24-30.
The coasts of Tyre and Sidon - These cities were on the seacoast or shore of the Mediterranean. See the notes at Matthew 11:21. Jesus went there for the purpose of concealment Mark 7:24, perhaps still to avoid Herod.
Matthew 15:22
A woman of Canaan - This woman is called, also, a Greek, a Syro-Phoenician by birth, Mark 7:26
In ancient times, the whole land, including Tyre and Sidon, was in the possession of the Canaanites, and called Canaan. The Phoenicians were descended from the Canaanites. The country, including Tyre and Sidon, was called Phoenicia, or Syro-Phoenicia. That country was taken by the Greeks under Alexander the Great, and those cities, in the time of Christ, were Greek cities. This woman was therefore a Gentile, living under the Greek government, and probably speaking the Greek language. She was by birth a Syro-Phoenician, born in that country, and descended, therefore, from the ancient Canaanites. All these names might, with propriety, be given to her.
Coasts - Regions or countries.
Thou son of David - Descendant of David. See the notes at Matthew 1:1. The phrase here means the Messiah.
Is grievously vexed with a devil - See the notes at Matthew 4:24. The woman showed great earnestness. She cried unto him, and fell at his feet, Mark 7:25.
Matthew 15:23
But he answered her not a word - This was done to test her faith, and that there might be exhibited to the apostles an example of the effect of persevering supplication.
The result shows that it was not unwillingness to aid her, or neglect of her. It was proper that the strength of her faith should be fully tried.
Matthew 15:24
But he answered and said, I am not sent ... - This answer was made to the woman, not to the disciples.
The âlost sheep of the house of Israelâ were the Jews. He came first to them. He came as their expected Messiah. He came to preach the gospel himself to the Jews only. Afterward it was preached to the Gentiles, but the ministry of Jesus was confined almost entirely to the Jews.
Matthew 15:25
She came and worshipped - That is, bowed down to him or did him reverence.
See the notes at Matthew 8:2.
Lord, help me! - A proper cry for a poor sinner, who needs the help of the Lord Jesus.
Matthew 15:26
But he answered and said, It is not meet ... - That is, it is not appropriate or proper.
Childrenâs bread - The Jews considered themselves as the special children of God.
To all other nations they were accustomed to apply terms of contempt, of which dogs was the most common. The Muslims still apply the term âdogsâ to Christians, and Christians and Jews to each other. The term is designed as an expression of the highest contempt. The Saviour means to say that he was sent to the Jews. The woman was a Gentile. He meant merely using a term in common use, and designed to test her faith in the strongest manner - that it did not comport with the design of his personal ministry to apply benefits intended for the Jews to others. Evidently he cannot be understood as intending to justify or sanction the use of such terms, or calling names. He meant to try her faith. As if he had said, âYou are a Gentile; I am a Jew. The Jews call themselves children of God. You they vilify and abuse, calling you a dog. Are you willing to receive of a Jew, then, a favor? Are you willing to submit to these appellations to receive a favor of one of that nation, and to acknowledge your dependence on a people that so despise you?â It was, therefore, a trial of her faith, and was not a lending of his sanction to the propriety of the abusive term. He regarded her with a different feeling.
Matthew 15:27
And she said, Truth, Lord ... - What you say is true.
Let it be that the best food should be given to the children - let the Jews have the chief benefit of thy ministry; but the dogs beneath the table eat the crumbs. So let me be regarded as a dog, a pagan, as unworthy of everything. Yet grant one exertion of that almighty power displayed so signally among the Jews, and heal the despised daughter of a despised heathen mother.â
Matthew 15:28
Great is thy faith - That is, thy trust, confidence.
The word here seems to include, also, the humility and perseverance manifested in pressing her suit. The daughter was healed then. Going home, she found her well and composed, Mark 7:30.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Matthew 15:26. The children's bread — The salvation provided for the Jews, who were termed the children of the kingdom. And cast it to the ÎºÏ Î½Î±ÏιοιÏ, little dogs - to the curs; such the Gentiles were reputed by the Jewish people, and our Lord uses that form of speech which was common among his countrymen. What terrible repulses! and yet she still perseveres!
