Charles Spurgeon Commentary Matthew 15:25-27

"But she came and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me. And he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children`s bread and cast it to the dogs. But she said, Yea, Lord: for even the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters` table." — Matthew 15:25-27 (ASV)

Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me.

But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to the dogs. And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.

Splendid faith, to make out that to heal her daughter would be, after all, to Christ nothing but to give her a lot of crumbs! She thought so much of Him; He was so great in her estimate that, much as she valued the healing of her daughter, she reckoned it to be to His royal majesty only as a bit of dog's food. Oh! splendid faith!