MATTHEW 15:27 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table.”
She said: yes, Lord, yet even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters' table. The woman's response is the most brilliant answer in the Gospels: she accepts the children-and-dogs metaphor without protest and finds within it the basis for her request. Yes, Lord — she concedes the point — yet even the dogs eat the crumbs from the table. The crumbs that fall from the children's meal are sufficient for the dogs, and the crumbs of Jesus' healing power are enough for her daughter. The woman is not claiming equality with the children; she is claiming that the overflow of the children's portion is enough for her need.
Church Fathers on Matthew 15:27
aug hter was made whole from that very hour.
Leaving the Scribes and Pharisees and those cavillers, He passes into the parts of Tyre and Sidon, that He may heal the Tyrians and Sidonians; 'And Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon.'
Tyre and Sidon were Gentile towns, for Tyre was the metropolis of the Chananaeans, and Sidon the boundary of the Chananaeans towards the north.
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