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Mark 07:24–31

Mark 07:24–314 matched frames

Read down to the center, where the pattern turns; then rise back out through its mirror.

  • A 24 Jesus left that place and went to the region of Tyre. Not wanting anyone to know He was there, He entered a house, but was unable to escape their notice.
    • B 24b Not wanting anyone to know He was there, He entered a house, but was unable to escape their notice.
      • C 25-26 Instead, a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit soon heard about Jesus, and she came and fell at His feet. Now she was a Greek woman of Syrophoenician origin, and she kept asking Jesus to drive the demon out of her daughter.
        • D 27 CENTER: "First let the children have their fill," He said. "For it is not right to take the children's bread and toss it to the dogs."
        • D' 28 "Yes, Lord," she replied, "even the dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs."
      • C' 29 Then Jesus told her, "Because of this answer, you may go. The demon has left your daughter."
    • B' 30 And she went home and found her child lying on the bed, and the demon was gone.
  • A' 31 Then Jesus left the region of Tyre and went through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee and into the region of the Decapolis.
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