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Matthew 15:24

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel. Christ’s personal ministry was confined to the Jews. He came as a Saviour to redeem all mankind, but as a preacher he was a minister to the circumcision, and he came to speak only to Israel.

Matthew 15:24

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel. “My ministerial commission is only to the Jews.” As a Saviour, he comes to save sinners, out of all nations; but as the Messiah, his special mission was to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

Matthew 15:24

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel. As a Preacher and a Teacher, Christ came to administer to the circumcision, the Jews, the seed of Israel. He did not go about among the nations, it was his work to be a witness to the Jews. As a Preacher, he must begin somewhere, and he chose to begin with...

Matthew 15:24

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel. Christ did what he was sent to do; he was the Messiah, the sent One. He would not go beyond his mission, so he says, “I am sent.” He was sent as a Preacher and a Teacher, not to the Gentiles, but to Israel. He had a larger commission in reserve, and was yet to...

Matthew 15:25

John Gill - Exposition - John Gill

Then came she and worshipped him,.... She followed the disciples into the house; and perceiving another repulse by Christ's answer to them, she pushes on, through all discouragements; her faith grows stronger, and her importunity greater: she had called Christ Lord, and the son of David before, but now she worships him as God: Saying, Lord help...

Matthew 15:25-27

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me. But he answered, and said, It is not meet to take the children’s bread, and to cast it to the dogs. And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters table. Splendid faith, to make it out, that to heal her daughter would be after all to Christ nothing...

Matthew 15:25

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me. “Then came she, and worshipped him.” If Jesus Christ was not really and truly God, he was a base imposter to allow this woman to worship him. She had called him “Lord,” once before, and he did not rebuke her, and now she not only calls him “Lord,” but she worships him. She was doing quite...

Matthew 15:25

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me. She takes a humbler attitude than she had at first assumed. She comes closer, and she is more earnest and personal in her pleading than she had been: “Lord help me.” Her prayer is shorter than it was at first; and I think that, when prayers grow shorter, they grow stronger. There is often...

Matthew 15:26

John Gill - Exposition - John Gill

But he answered, and said,.... To the woman, as the Persic version reads it, and the sense requires: it is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs; which he said, to try her faith the more, and make it the more illustrious; and that not so much from his own sense of things, as in the language of the Jewish people, and which...

Matthew 15:26

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

To take the children’s bread, and to cast it to dogs. The original means, the little dogs that play with the children; they lie under the table, and pick up the crumbs that their masters (the children) let fall. The woman caught at that expression at once —

Matthew 15:26-28

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children’s bread, and to cast it to dogs. And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table. Then Jesus answered and said unto to her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou will. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour....

Matthew 15:26-27

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children’s bread, and to cast it to dogs. And she said, Truth, Lord. You remember the sermon that we had upon this text not long ago. The woman did not contradict the Saviour, she did not enter into any controversy with him, but she said, “Truth, Lord.” Whatever he says however black the words...

Matthew 15:26-27

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children’s bread, and to cast it to the dogs. And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table. It is the faculty of faith to see in the dark. This woman spied out light in what seemed to be a very dark saying. Did Christ call her a dog? Well, dogs...

Matthew 15:27

John Gill - Exposition - John Gill

And she saith, truth, Lord,.... She owns all that he had said to be true, that he was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel: that she was indeed but a dog, a poor sinful creature, and unworthy of any favour; and that it was not right and fitting that all the children's bread should be taken from them and given to dogs: yet the dogs...

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