New English Translation
Mark 7:29
29Then he said to her, “Because you said this, you may go. The demon has left your daughter.”
Mark 7:29 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And he said unto her, For this saying go thy way; the devil is gone out of thy daughter.
- New International Version (NIV)Then he told her, “For such a reply, you may go; the demon has left your daughter.”
- English Standard Version (ESV)And he said to her, "For this statement you may go your way; the demon has left your daughter."
- New King James Version (NKJV)Then He said to her, “For this saying go your way; the demon has gone out of your daughter.”
Context of Mark 7:29
27He said to her, “Let the children be satisfied first, for it is not right to take the children’s bread and to throw it to the dogs.” 28She answered, “Yes, Lord, but even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.” Then he said to her, “Because you said this, you may go. The demon has left your daughter.” 30She went home and found the child lying on the bed, and the demon gone. 31Then Jesus went out again from the region of Tyre and came through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee in the region of the Decapolis.
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Καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῇ· διὰ τοῦτον τὸν λόγον ὕπαγε, ἐξελήλυθεν ἐκ τῆς θυγατρός σου τὸ δαιμόνιον.Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- Andκαίkai · andG2532
- he saidλέγωlegō · to sayG3004
- unto herαὐτόςautos · it/s/heG846
- Forδιάdia · through/because ofG1223
- thisοὗτοςhoutos houtoi hautē hautai · this/he/she/itG3778
- sayingὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
- sayingλόγοςlogos · wordG3056
- go thy wayὑπάγωhupagō · to goG5217
- the devilδαιμόνιονdaimonion · demonG1140
- is gone outἐξέρχομαιexerchomai · to go outG1831
- ofἐκek ex · out fromG1537
- thyσύsu · youG4771
- daughterθυγάτηρthugatēr · daughterG2364
Cross-references for Mark 7:29
- Isaiah 57:15For this is what the high and exalted one says, the one who rules forever, whose name is holy: “I dwell in an exalted and holy place, but also with the discouraged and humiliated, in order to cheer up the humiliated and to encourage the discouraged.
- Isaiah 66:2My hand made them; that is how they came to be,” says the Lord. I show special favor to the humble and contrite, who respect what I have to say.
- Matthew 5:3“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to them.
- Matthew 8:9For I too am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. I say to this one, ‘Go’ and he goes, and to another ‘Come’ and he comes, and to my slave ‘Do this’ and he does it.”
- 1 John 3:8The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was revealed: to destroy the works of the devil.
Commentaries on Mark 7:29
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 24-30Verses 24-30 See this miracle explained in the notes at Matthew 15:21-28. Mark 7:24 Would have no man know it - To avoid the designs of the Pharisees he wished to be retired. Mark 7:26 A Greek - The Jews called all persons “Greeks” who were not of their nation. Compare Romans 1:14. The whole world was considered as divided into Jews and Greeks. Though she might not have been strictly a “Greek,” yet she came under this general appellation as a foreigner.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 24-30Verses 24-30 Christ never put any from him that fell at his feet, which a poor trembling soul may do. As she was a good woman, so a good mother. This sent her to Christ. His saying, Let the children first be filled, shows that there was mercy for the Gentiles, and not far off. She spoke, not as making light of the mercy, but magnifying the abundance of miraculous cures among the Jews, in comparison with which a single cure was but as a crumb. Thus, while…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 29-30For similar healings from a distance, see Matthew 8:5–13, Luke 7:1–10, and John 4:46–54.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2929. And he said unto her--"O woman, great is thy faith" (Mt 15:28). As Bengel beautifully remarks, Jesus "marvelled" only at two things--faith and unbelief (see Lu 7:9). For this saying go thy way; the devil is gone out of thy daughter--That moment the deed was done.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Mark 7
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Catena Aurea
- Illustrated New Testament
- Burkitt’s Expository Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Family Bible Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- John Lightfoot Commentary
- Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- The People’s New Testament
- Robertson’s Word Pictures
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- The Fourfold Gospel and Commentary on Acts
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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