Mark 7:23-30

English Standard Version

^23 (A)All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”

The Syrophoenician Woman's Faith

²⁴ And from there he arose and went away to the region of Tyre and Sidon.^[a] And he entered a house and did not want anyone to know, yet he could not be hidden. ²⁵ But immediately a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit heard of him and came and fell down at his feet. ^26 (B)Now the woman was a ^(C)Gentile, ^(D)a Syrophoenician by birth. And she begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter. ²⁷ And he said to her, “Let the children be ^(E)fed first, for it is not right to take the children's bread and ^(F)throw it to the dogs.” ²⁸ But she answered him, “Yes, Lord; yet even the dogs under the table eat the children's ^(G)crumbs.” ²⁹ And he said to her, “For this statement you may ^(H)go your way; the demon has left your daughter.” ³⁰ And she went home and found the child lying in bed and the demon gone.