Book of Common Prayer

⁹ For I think God displayed^[a] us the apostles as last^[b], like ones condemned-to-death— because we were-made^[c] a spectacle^[d] to the world, both to angels and to people. ¹⁰ We are foolish ones for the sake of Christ, but you are wise ones in Christ. We are weak ones, but you are strong ones. You are distinguished ones, but we are dishonored ones. ¹¹ Until the present hour indeed we hunger, and thirst, and are naked^[e], and are beaten, and live-transiently^[f], ¹² and labor— working with our own hands. ¹³ While being reviled^[g], we bless; while being persecuted, we endure; while being slandered, we conciliate^[h]. We were-made^[i] like the sweepings^[j] of the world, the scum^[k] of all things, up to now.

I Am Writing To Admonish You As My Children. Be Imitators of Me

¹⁴ I am writing these things not shaming you, but admonishing you as my beloved children. ¹⁵ For if you should have ten-thousand tutors^[l] in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers. For I fathered you in Christ Jesus through the good-news. ¹⁶ Therefore I exhort you— be^[m] imitators of me.

A Gentile Woman Begs For Crumbs From The Master’s Table

²¹ And having gone out from there, Jesus withdrew into the regions of Tyre and Sidon. ²² And behold— a Canaanite woman having come out from those districts was crying out, saying, “Have mercy on me, Master, Son of David. My daughter is badly demon-possessed”. ²³ But the One did not respond a word to her. And having come to Him, His disciples were asking Him, saying, “Send her away, because she is crying-out after us”. ²⁴ But the One, having responded, said, “I was not sent-forth except for^[a] the lost^[b] sheep of the house of Israel”. ²⁵ But the one, having come, was prostrating-herself before Him, saying, “Master, help me”. ²⁶ And the One, having responded, said, “It is not good to take the bread of the children and throw it to the little-dogs^[c]”. ²⁷ But the one said, “Yes, Master. For indeed the little-dogs eat from the crumbs falling from the table of their masters!” ²⁸ Then, having responded, Jesus said to her, “O woman, your faith is great. Let it be done for you as you wish”. And her daughter was healed from that hour.