Matthew 15:25

The NET Bible®

But she came and bowed down before him and said, "Lord, help me!"

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
But she came, knelt before him, and said, “Lord, help me!”

King James Version (1611)
Then came she, and worshipped him, saying, Lord, helpe me.

King James Version
Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me.

English Standard Version
But she came and knelt before him, saying, "Lord, help me."

New American Standard Bible
But she came and began to bow down before Him, saying, "Lord, help me!"

New Century Version
Then the woman came to Jesus again and bowed before him and said, "Lord, help me!"

Amplified Bible
But she came and began to kneel down before Him, saying, "Lord, help me!"

Geneva Bible (1587)
Yet she came, and worshipped him, saying, Lord, helpe me.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
But she came and began to bow down before Him, saying, "Lord, help me!"

Legacy Standard Bible
But she came and was bowing down before Him, saying, "Lord, help me!"

Berean Standard Bible
The woman came and knelt before him. "Lord, help me!" she said.

Contemporary English Version
The woman came closer. Then she knelt down and begged, "Please help me, Lord!"

Complete Jewish Bible
But she came, fell at his feet and said, "Sir, help me!"

Darby Translation
But she came and did him homage, saying, Lord, help me.

Easy-to-Read Version
Then the woman came over to Jesus and bowed before him. She said, "Lord, help me!"

George Lamsa Translation
But she came and worshipped him, and said, My Lord, help me.

Good News Translation
At this the woman came and fell at his feet. "Help me, sir!" she said.

Lexham English Bible
But she came and knelt down before him, saying, "Lord, help me!"

Literal Translation
But coming, she worshiped Him, saying, Lord, help me!

American Standard Version
But she came and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me.

Bible in Basic English
But she came and gave him worship, saying, Help, Lord.

Hebrew Names Version
But she came and worshiped him, saying, "Lord, help me."

International Standard Version
Then she came and fell down before him, saying, "Lord, help me!"

Etheridge Translation
Then she came, worshipped him, and said, My Lord, help me !

Murdock Translation
And she came, and worshipped him, and said: Help me, my Lord.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then came she, and worshipped him, saying: Lorde, helpe me.

English Revised Version
But she came and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me.

World English Bible
But she came and worshiped him, saying, "Lord, help me."

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Then came she and worshiped him, saying, Lord, help me.

Weymouth's New Testament
Then she came and threw herself at His feet and entreated Him. "O Sir, help me," she said.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And she cam, and worschipide hym, and seide, Lord, helpe me.

Update Bible Version
But she came and worshiped him, saying, Lord, help me.

Webster's Bible Translation
Then came she and worshiped him, saying, Lord, help me.

New King James Version
Then she came and worshiped Him, saying, "Lord, help me!"

New Living Translation
But she came and worshiped him, pleading again, "Lord, help me!"

New Life Bible
Then she came and got down before Jesus and worshiped Him. She said, "Lord, help me!"

New Revised Standard
But she came and knelt before him, saying, "Lord, help me."

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, she, coming, began bowing down to him, saying, Lord! help me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But she came and adored him, saying: Lord, help me.

Revised Standard Version
But she came and knelt before him, saying, "Lord, help me."

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Then she came and worshipped him sayinge: master helpe me.

Young's Literal Translation
And having come, she was bowing to him, saying, `Sir, help me;'

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Notwithstondinge she came & fell downe before him, & sayde: LORDE, helpe me.

Mace New Testament (1729)
however she advanc'd, and throwing her self at his feet, cried, O Lord, assist me.

THE MESSAGE
Then the woman came back to Jesus, went to her knees, and begged. "Master, help me."

Simplified Cowboy Version
The lady came up close to his horse and then got down on her knees and begged, "Please, you're the only one who can help my daughter!"

Contextual Overview

²¹ After going out from there, Jesus went to the region of Tyre and Sidon. ²² A Canaanite woman from that area came and cried out, "Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David! My daughter is horribly demon-possessed!" ²³ But he did not answer her a word. Then his disciples came and begged him, "Send her away, because she keeps on crying out after us." ²⁴ So he answered, "I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel." ²⁵ But she came and bowed down before him and said, "Lord, help me!" ²⁶ "It is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs," he said. ²⁷ "Yes, Lord," she replied, "but even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters' table." ²⁸ Then Jesus answered her, "Woman, your faith is great! Let what you want be done for you." And her daughter was healed from that hour.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

came: Matthew 20:31, Genesis 32:26, Hosea 12:4, Luke 11:8-10, Luke 18:1-8

worshipped: Matthew 14:33

Lord: Mark 9:22, Mark 9:24

Reciprocal: Matthew 8:2 - worshipped Matthew 9:18 - worshipped Matthew 20:20 - worshipping Ephesians 6:18 - all perseverance

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then came she and worshipped him,.... She followed the disciples into the house; and perceiving another repulse by Christ's answer to them, she pushes on, through all discouragements; her faith grows stronger, and her importunity greater: she had called Christ Lord, and the son of David before, but now she worships him as God:

Saying, Lord help me; a short petition, but what fully and fitly expressed her case: the object she prays unto is the Lord, by which she owns his sovereignty, dominion, and power: the request she makes is for "help", signifying that her case required it; that it was such, that she could not help herself, nor any creature help her, only he, which she firmly believed; and though it was her daughter, and not she herself, that was so miserably afflicted; yet such was her sympathy, love, and affection to her, that she makes the case her own, and calls helping her daughter, helping herself; for her daughter being relieved, she would be made easy.

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 “lost sheep of the house of Israel” 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.

Children’s 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 “dogs” 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, “You 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?” 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.”

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 15:25. Lord, help me. — Let me also share in the deliverance afforded to Israel.