27And 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.'


In Context

24 And from thence having risen, he went away to the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and having entered into the house, he wished none to know, and he was not able to be hid,

25 for a woman having heard about him, whose little daughter had an unclean spirit, having come, fell at his feet, —

26 and the woman was a Greek, a Syro-Phenician by nation — and was asking him, that the demon he may cast forth out of her daughter.

27 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.'

28 And she answered and saith to him, 'Yes, sir; for the little dogs also under the table do eat of the children's crumbs.'

29 And he said to her, 'Because of this word go; the demon hath gone forth out of thy daughter;'

Mark 7:27 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:27But 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.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

7:27"First let the children eat all they want," he told her, "for it is not right to take the children's bread and toss it to their dogs."

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

7:27Who 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.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

7:27And 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.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:27But 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.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

7:27And 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.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:27But 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.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:27But 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.|

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:27But Jesus said to her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to the dogs.