But she answered and said to him: Yea, Lord; for the whelps also eat under the table of the crumbs of the children.

And she answered and said to him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crums.

And she answered and saith to him, 'Yes, sir; for the little dogs also under the table do eat of the children's crumbs.'

"True, Sir," she replied, "and yet the dogs under the table eat the children's scraps."

But she said to him in answer, Yes, Lord: even the dogs under the table take the bits dropped by the children.

But she responded by saying to him: "Certainly, Lord. Yet the young dogs also eat, under the table, from the crumbs of the children."

"Yes, Master," she replied. "Even the dogs under the table do feed on the children's crumbs."

And she answered and said unto him, (p) Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.
(p) As if she said, "It is as thou sayest Lord, for it is enough for the dogs if they can but gather up the crumbs that are under the table; therefore I crave the crumbs and not the children's bread."

And she answered and said unto him, yes, Lord,.... Agreeing to, and acquiescing in, what he said; which she seemed to have understood, though delivered in a proverbial way; and very appropriately replies,
yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs; which they leave, or let fall: signifying that she did not envy the blessings of the Jews, or desire any thing might be done injurious to them; only that this favour might be granted her, which she owned she was unworthy of, that her daughter might be healed. She tacitly owns, that the character of dogs belonged to the Gentiles, and to her and hers among the rest; that they were vile and base in themselves, inferior to the Jews, as to privileges, like dogs under the table; that the provisions with which the table of the Gospel ministry was furnished, was not for them; at least, that they were quite undeserving of them: but however, whereas dogs were allowed to eat crumbs, which now and then fell from the table, or out of the children's hands and laps; so such unworthy Gentiles as she, might be allowed a small benefit or favour by the bye, when it did not take from, and was no disadvantage to the Jews; See Gill on Matthew 15:27.

And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord--or, as the same word is rendered in Matthew 15:27. "Truth, Lord."
yet the dogs eat of the children's crumbs--which fall from their master's table" (Matthew 15:27). "I thank Thee, O blessed One, for that word! That's my whole case. Not of the children? True. A dog? True also: Yet the dogs under the table are allowed to eat of the children's crumbs--the droppings from their master's full table: Give me that, and I am content: One crumb of power and grace from Thy table shall cast the devil out of my daughter." Oh, what lightning quickness, what reach of instinctive ingenuity, do we behold in this heathen woman!