Mark 7:27

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

And he was saying to her - Suffer, the children, first, to be fed; for it is not seemly to take the bread of the children, and, unto the little dogs, to cast it;

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
Jesus told the woman, "It is not right to take the children's bread and give it to the dogs. First let the children eat all they want."

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And Iesus sayde vnto her: let the chyldren fyrst be feed. For it is not mete to take the chyldres breed and to caste it vnto whelppes.

International Standard Version
But he kept telling her, "First let the children be filled. It is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the puppies."

New American Standard Bible
And He was saying to her, "Let the children be satisfied first, for it is not good to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs."

New Century Version
Jesus told the woman, "It is not right to take the children's bread and give it to the dogs. First let the children eat all they want."

Update Bible Version
And he said to her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children's bread and cast it to the dogs.

Webster's Bible Translation
But Jesus said to her, Let the children first be satisfied: for it is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast [it] to the dogs.

Amplified Bible
He was saying to her, "First let the children [of Israel] be fed, for it is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the pet dogs (non-Jews)."

English Standard Version
And he said to her, "Let the children be fed first, for it is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs."

World English Bible
But Jesus said to her, "Let the children be filled first, for it is not appropriate to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs."

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
But Jesus said to her, Let the children first be satisfied; for it is not right to take the childrens bread and cast it to the dogs.

Weymouth's New Testament
"Let the children first eat all they want," He said; "it is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs."

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And he seide to hir, Suffre thou, that the children be fulfillid first; for it is not good to take the breed of children, and yyue to houndis.

English Revised Version
And he said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children's bread and cast it to the dogs.

Berean Standard Bible
"First let the children have their fill," He said. "For it is not right to take the children's bread and toss it to the dogs."

Contemporary English Version
But Jesus said, "The children must first be fed! It isn't right to take away their food and feed it to dogs."

American Standard Version
And he said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children's bread and cast it to the dogs.

Bible in Basic English
And he said to her, Let the children first have their food: for it is not right to take the children's bread and give it to the dogs.

Complete Jewish Bible
He said, "Let the children be fed first, for it is not right to take the children's food and toss it to their pet dogs."

Darby Translation
But [Jesus] said to her, Suffer the children to be first filled; for it is not right to take the children's bread and cast it to the dogs.

Etheridge Translation
But Jeshu said to her, Let the children first be filled; for it is not well to take the bread of the children and cast it to the dogs.

Murdock Translation
Jesus said to her: Permit the children first to be satisfied; for it is not becoming, to take the children's bread and cast it to dogs.

King James Version (1611)
But Iesus said vnto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the childrens bread, and to cast it vnto the dogges.

New Living Translation
Jesus told her, "First I should feed the children—my own family, the Jews. It isn't right to take food from the children and throw it to the dogs."

New Life Bible
Jesus said to her, "Let the children have what they want first. It is wrong to take children's food and throw it to the dogs."

New Revised Standard
He said to her, "Let the children be fed first, for it is not fair to take the children's food and throw it to the dogs."

Geneva Bible (1587)
But Iesus saide vnto her, Let the children first be fedde: for it is not good to take the childrens bread, and to cast it vnto whelpes.

George Lamsa Translation
And Jesus said to her, Let the children be first filled; for it is not right to take the children''s bread and throw it to the dogs.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who said to her: suffer first the children to be filled: for it is not good to take the bread of the children and cast it to the dogs.

Revised Standard Version
And he said to her, "Let the children first be fed, for it is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs."

Bishop's Bible (1568)
But Iesus saide vnto her, let the children first be fedde: For it is not meete to take the chyldrens bread, and to caste it vnto litle dogges.

Good News Translation
But Jesus answered, "Let us first feed the children. It isn't right to take the children's food and throw it to the dogs."

Christian Standard Bible®
He said to her, “Let the children be fed first, because it isn’t right to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”

Hebrew Names Version
But Yeshua said to her, "Let the children be filled first, for it is not appropriate to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs."

King James Version
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.

Lexham English Bible
And he said to her, "Let the children be satisfied first, for it is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs!"

Literal Translation
And Jesus said to her, First, allow the children to be satisfied, for it is not good to take the children's bread and to throw it to the dogs.

Young's Literal Translation
And Jesus said to her, `Suffer first the children to be filled, for it is not good to take the children's bread, and to cast [it] to the little dogs.'

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But Iesus sayde vnto her: Let the children be fed first: It is not mete to take the childres bred, and to cast it vnto dogges.

Mace New Testament (1729)
Jesus therefore said to her, let the children first be satisfy'd; for it would not be decent to take the children's bread, and throw it to puppys.

THE MESSAGE
He said, "Stand in line and take your turn. The children get fed first. If there's any left over, the dogs get it."

New English Translation
He said to her, "Let the children be satisfied first, for it is not right to take the children's bread and to throw it to the dogs."

New King James Version
But Jesus said to her, "Let the children be filled first, for it is not good to take the children's bread and throw it to the little dogs."

Simplified Cowboy Version
Jesus said to her, "A father will feed his own children first. He won't take away their meal and give it to the dogs."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
And He was saying to her, "Let the children be satisfied first, for it is not good to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs."

Legacy Standard Bible
And He was saying to her, "Let the children be satisfied first, for it is not good to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs."

Contextual Overview

²⁴ And, from thence arising, he departed into the bounds of Tyre and Zidon. And, entering into a house, he was wishing, no one, to know it, and yet could not escape notice, - ²⁵ but, straightway, a woman hearing about him, whose daughter had an impure spirit, she came and fell down at his feet. ²⁶ Now, the woman, was a Grecian, a Syrophoenician by race, - and she was requesting him that, the demon, he would cast forth out of her daughter. ²⁷ And he was saying to her - Suffer, the children, first, to be fed; for it is not seemly to take the bread of the children, and, unto the little dogs, to cast it; ²⁸ but she answered and saith to him - Yea, Lord! and yet, the little dogs under the table, do eat of the crumbs of the children; ²⁹ and he said to her - Because of this word, go thy way, the demon hath gone forth out of thy daughter; ³⁰ and, departing unto her house, she found the child laid prostrate on the couch, and the demon gone forth.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Let: Matthew 7:6, Matthew 10:5, Matthew 15:23-28, Acts 22:21, Romans 15:8, Ephesians 2:12

Reciprocal: Matthew 15:26 - It is not Luke 15:31 - General John 4:43 - two

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But Jesus said unto her,.... Not directly and immediately, upon her first request; for he answered not a word to that; but after his, disciples had desired she might be sent away, her cries being so troublesome to them; and after she had renewed her request to him; see Matthew 15:23.

Let the children first be filled: according to this method, our Lord directed his apostles, and they proceeded: as he himself was sent to the lost sheep of the house of Israel, he ordered his disciples to go to them, and preach the Gospel to them, and work miracles among them; and not go in the way of the Gentiles, nor into any of the cities of the Samaritans; but when they had gone through the cities of Judea, he ordered them, after his resurrection, to go into all the world, and preach the Gospel to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem: and this order they observed in other places, where there were Jews; they first preached to them, and then to the Gentiles; knowing that it was necessary, that the word of God should be first spoken to them; and it was the power of God to the Jew first, and then to the Gentile: and the expression here used, though it gives the preference to the Jew, does not exclude the Gentile; nay, it supposes, that after the Jews had had the doctrines of Christ, confirmed by his miracles, sufficiently ministered unto them, for the gathering in the chosen ones among them, and to leave the rest inexcusable; and so long as until they should despise it, and put it away from them, judging themselves unworthy of it; that then the Gentiles should have plenty of Gospel provisions set before them, and should eat of them, and be filled; and should have a large number of miracles wrought among them, and a fulness of the blessings of grace bestowed on them. The Jews are meant, who were the children of God by national adoption; who were first to be filled with the doctrines and miracles of Christ, before the Gentiles were to have them among them; as they were, even to a loathing and contempt of them:

for it is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it unto the dogs: as by "the children" are meant the Israelites, who were not only the children of Abraham by natural descent, but the children of God, to whom pertained the adoption, by virtue of the national covenant made with them; so by "the dogs", are meant the Gentiles, who were reckoned as such by the Jews; and by the "bread", which it was not fit and proper should be taken from the one for the present, and cast to the other, is designed the ministry of the Gospel; which is as bread, solid, substantial, wholesome, and nourishing; and the miraculous cures wrought on the bodies of men, which accompanied it: now it was not meet and convenient as yet, that these things should be taken away from the Jewish nation, until they had answered the ends for which they were designed, and the Jews should express their loathing and abhorrence of them: which when they did, they were taken away from them, and were ministered to the nations of the world, they contemptuously called dogs;

Matthew 15:23- :.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See this miracle explained in the notes at Matthew 15:21-28.

Mark 7:24

Would have no man know it - To avoid the designs of the Pharisees he wished to be retired.

Mark 7:26

A Greek - The Jews called all persons “Greeks” who were not of their nation. Compare Romans 1:14. The whole world was considered as divided into Jews and Greeks. Though she might not have been strictly a “Greek,” yet she came under this general appellation as a foreigner.