Mark 7:24-30

New American Standard Bible

The Syrophoenician Woman

²⁴^(A)Now Jesus got up and went from there to the region of ^(B)Tyre^[a]. And when He had entered a house, He wanted no one to know about it; and yet He could not escape notice. ²⁵But after hearing about Him, a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit immediately came and fell at His feet. ²⁶Now the woman was a ^[b]Gentile, of Syrophoenician descent. And she repeatedly asked Him to cast the demon out of her daughter. ²⁷And He was saying to her, “Let the children be satisfied first, for it is not ^[c]good to take the children’s bread and throw it to the ^[d]dogs.” ²⁸But she answered and *said to Him, “Yes, Lord, but even the dogs under the table feed on the children’s crumbs.” ²⁹And He said to her, “Because of this ^[e]answer, go; the demon has gone out of your daughter.” ³⁰And after going back to her home, she found the child ^[f]lying on the bed, and the demon gone.

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Footnotes

Mark 7:24 Two early mss add and Sidon
Mark 7:26 Lit Greek
Mark 7:27 Or proper
Mark 7:27 I.e., pet dogs
Mark 7:29 Lit word
Mark 7:30 Lit thrown

Luke 18:1-8

New American Standard Bible

Parables on Prayer

18 Now He was telling them a parable to show that at all times they ^(A)ought to pray and not ^(B)become discouraged, ²saying, “In a certain city there was a judge who did not fear God and did not ^(C)respect any person. ³Now there was a widow in that city, and she kept coming to him, saying, ‘Give me justice against my ^[a]opponent.’ ⁴For a while he was unwilling; but later he said to himself, ‘Even though I do not fear God nor ^(D)respect any person, ⁵yet ^(E)because this widow is bothering me, I will give her justice; otherwise ^[b]by continually coming she will ^(F)wear me out.’” ⁶And ^(G)the Lord said, “Listen to what the unrighteous judge *said; ⁷now, will God not ^(H)bring about justice for His ^(I)elect who cry out to Him day ^[c]and night, and will He ^(J)delay long for them? ⁸I tell you that He will bring about justice for them quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, ^(K)will He find ^[d]faith on the earth?”