Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

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

²⁴ And having arisen, He went from there to the districts of Tyre. And having entered into a house, He was wanting^[a] no one to know^[b] it. And-yet He was not able to escape-notice. ²⁵ But immediately, a woman having heard about Him— of whom her little daughter was having an unclean spirit— having come, fell at His feet. ²⁶ Now the woman was a Greek^[c], a Syro-Phoenician^[d] by nationality. And she was asking Him that He cast out the demon from her daughter. ²⁷ And He was saying to her, “First allow the children to be filled-to-satisfaction. For it is not good to take the bread of the children and throw it to the little-dogs^[e]”. ²⁸ But the one responded and says to Him, “Master, even the little dogs under the table eat from the crumbs of the children!” ²⁹ And He said to her, “Because of this statement, go— the demon has gone out of your daughter”. ³⁰ And having gone to her house, she found the child having been put^[f] on the bed, and the demon having gone out.