Matthew 15:26 BSB — MannaFest

Matthew 15:26

But Jesus replied, “It is not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to the dogs.”

BSB

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ASV

And he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children’s bread and cast it to the dogs.

KJV

But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children’s bread, and to cast it to dogs.

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Commentary

3 voices

Tertullian

Against Marcion Book IV (220)

" Marcion must even expunge from the Gospel, "I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel; " and, "It is not meet to take the children'sbread, and to cast it to dogs," -in order, forsooth, that Christ may not appear to be an Israelite.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

Jerome

Catena Aurea by Aquinas (420)

Note how perseveringly this Chananæan woman calls Him first Son of David, then Lord, and lastly came and worshipped him, as God. The Gentiles are called dogs because of their idolatry; who, given to the eating of blood, and dead bodies, turn to madness.

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

But he answered, and said,.... To the woman, as the Persic version reads it, and the sense requires: it is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs; which he said, to try her faith the more, and make it the more illustrious; and that not so much from his own sense of things, as in the language of the Jewish people, and which she might not be a stranger to.

The Nineteenth Century3 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

The children’s bread - The salvation provided for the Jews, who were termed the children of the kingdom. And cast it to the κυναριοις, little dogs - to the curs; such the Gentiles were reputed by the Jewish people, and our Lord uses that form of speech which was common among his countrymen. What terrible repulses! and yet she still perseveres!

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 1309: “The Little Dogs” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1876)

I TAKE the two records of Matthew and Mark that we may have the whole matter before us. May the Holy Spirit bless our meditations. The brightest jewels are often found in the darkest places. Christ had not found such faith, no, not in Israel, as he discovered in this poor Canaanite woman. The borders and fringes of the land were more fruitful than the center, where the farming had been more abundant!

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Original language & word study

16 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Ὁ	Ho	<the>	G3588 →
δὲ	de	And	G1161 →
ἀποκριθεὶς	apokritheis	answering	G611 →
εἶπεν·	eipen	He said;	G2036 →
οὐκ	ouk	Not	G3756 →
ἔστιν	estin	it is	G1510 →
καλὸν	kalon	right	G2570 →
λαβεῖν	labein	to take	G2983 →
τὸν	ton	the	G3588 →
ἄρτον	arton	bread	G740 →
τῶν	tōn	of the	G3588 →
τέκνων	teknōn	children	G5043 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
βαλεῖν	balein	to cast [it]	G906 →
τοῖς	tois	to the	G3588 →
κυναρίοις.¶	kunariois	dogs.	G2952 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Matthew 7:6
Do not give dogs what is holy; do not throw your pearls before swine. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and then turn and tear you to pieces.
leads to
- Proverbs 9:7–8
  He who corrects a mocker brings shame on himself; he who rebukes a wicked man taints himself.
- Proverbs 23:9
  Do not speak to a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.
- Matthew 10:14–15
  And if anyone will not welcome you or heed your words, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that home or town.
- Proverbs 26:11
  As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.
- Acts 13:45–47
  But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy, and they blasphemously contradicted what Paul was saying.
Through
Philippians 3:2
Watch out for those dogs, those workers of evil, those mutilators of the flesh!
leads to
- 2 Corinthians 11:13
  For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ.
Through
Ephesians 2:12
remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.
leads to
- Galatians 4:8
  Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods.
- Colossians 1:21
  Once you were alienated from God and were hostile in your minds, engaging in evil deeds.

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01Commentary

The record, by era

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Matthew

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Matthew