But she answered him, “Yes, Lord. Yet even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.”
Parallel translations
- KJV And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children’s crumbs.
- BSB “Yes, Lord,” she replied, “even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.”
- NKJV And she answered and said to Him, “Yes, Lord, yet even the little dogs under the table eat from the children’s crumbs.”
- NASB But she answered and *said to Him, “Yes, Lord, but even the dogs under the table feed on the children’s crumbs.”
- NLT She replied, “That’s true, Lord, but even the dogs under the table are allowed to eat the scraps from the children’s plates.”
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Quick answer
The woman humbly agreed yet noted that even the dogs eat the children's crumbs. Her faith-filled, humble reply moved Jesus to grant her request.
Overview
Accepting her lowly place, the woman cleverly turned Jesus' image to her advantage, asking only for the overflow of His mercy. Her response combined deep humility with bold faith in Christ's abundant grace. She grasped that even the crumbs of Messiah's blessing were enough, modeling the faith that lays hold of Christ.
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Cross-references · 12
- Rom 10:12For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, and is rich to all who call on him.
- Rom 3:29Or is God the God of Jews only? Isn’t he the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also,
- Acts 11:17–18If then God gave to them the same gift as us, when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I, that I could withstand God?”
- Isa 45:22“Look to me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.
- Luke 15:30–32But when this, your son, came, who has devoured your living with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.’
- Luke 7:6–8Jesus went with them. When he was now not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to him, saying to him, “Lord, don’t trouble yourself, for I am not worthy for you to come under my roof.
- Isa 49:6Indeed, he says, “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel? I will also give you as a light to the nations, that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.”
- Eph 2:12–14that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
- Ps 145:16You open your hand, and satisfy the desire of every living thing.
- Eph 3:8To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,
- Matt 5:45that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.
- Rom 15:8–9Now I say that Christ has been made a servant of the circumcision for the truth of God, that he might confirm the promises given to the fathers,
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