Matthew 15:27

The woman humbly perseveres in her aim, "Yes Lord." Agreeing that she is a worthless dog; and that to such a one the bread of children is not to be cast, still even in this low estate, she claims the need to be attended to.

She did not ask for an abundance of bread. The miraculous cure she looked for was only "a crumb", in contrast to the many splendid miracles done among the Jews, which Jesus calls children, but she reverently calls her masters. MacEvilly says that it is as if she said, "nourish me, therefore, as whelps are nourished, with a crumb of the bread that falls from my masters' table."^[1][2]

In the Greek text and in many English translations, "their masters' table" combines the singular (table) with the plural (masters).^[3] The International Standard Version has tables (plural).^[4] Some paraphrases offer "their master's table" (both singular), for example J. B. Phillips' New Testament.^[5]

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