yet even the little dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table” (v. 27). Basically she was saying, “I don’t want what belongs to the people of God. I just want what they don’t want.” Understand that God could have healed and delivered everybody in Israel, but Israel wasn’t taking all that God had. So there were some crumbs available. Crumbs are what’s left over. And because Israel left behind so much of what God had for them, Jesus healed her daughter. People may not understand why
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