Mark 7:24-30

International Standard Version

A Canaanite Woman’s Faith^(A)

²⁴ Jesus^[a] left that place and went to the territory of Tyre and Sidon.^[b] He went into a house, not wanting anyone to know he was there. However, it couldn’t be kept a secret. ²⁵ In fact, a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit immediately heard about him and came and fell down at his feet. ²⁶ Now the woman happened to be a Greek, born in Phoenicia in Syria. She kept asking him to drive the demon out of her daughter. ²⁷ But he kept telling her, “First let the children be filled. It is not right to take the children’s bread and throw it to the puppies.”

²⁸ But she answered him, “Yes,^[c] Lord. Yet even the puppies under the table eat some of the children’s crumbs.”

²⁹ Then he told her, “Because you have said this, go! The demon has left your daughter.” ³⁰ So she went home and found her child lying in bed, and the demon was gone.