Mark 7:27 (BSB)
“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.”
Commentary on Mark 7:27
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Mark 7:24-30: See here, I. How humbly Christ was pleased to conceal himself. Never man was so cried up as he was in Galilee, and therefore, to teach us, though not to decline any opportunity of doing good, yet not to be fond of popular applause, he arose from thence, and went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon, where he was little known; and there he...
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Mark 7:27: And she answered and said unto him, yes, Lord,.... Agreeing to, and acquiescing in, what he said; which she seemed to have understood, though delivered in a proverbial way; and very appropriately replies, yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs; which they leave, or let fall: signifying that she did not envy the blessings of the Jews, or desire any thing...
- Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Mark 7:27: 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. (o) "Dog" here signifies a little dog, and he uses this term that he may seem to speak more reproachfully.