²⁶ The woman was a Gentile,^[a](A) a Syrophoenician by birth, and she was asking him to cast the demon^(B) out of her daughter. ²⁷ He said to her, “Let the children be fed first, because it isn’t right to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”^(C)

²⁸ But she replied to him, “Lord,^(D) even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.”