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Mark 7:27

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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.

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  1. Mark 7:25

    For a certain woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet:

  2. Mark 7:26

    The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter.

  3. Mark 7:28

    And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children’s crumbs.

  4. Mark 7:29

    And he said unto her, For this saying go thy way; the devil is gone out of thy daughter.

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