Bread for the Children and the Dogs

When a Canaanite woman requests Jesus heal her daughter, he tells her He was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel and that it wasn't right to throw the children's bread to the dogs. As a Gentile, she had no right to the things of God, yet she cried out to the Son of David to have mercy on her. And in her great faith, she gives one of the most brilliant responses in all the gospels: that even the dogs get the crumbs that fall from the table.

The means by which salvation came to the Gentiles was through the Word that the Jews rejected. And the Gentiles appreciated every breadcrumb that fell from the table. By Israel's transgression, salvation came to the Gentiles (Rom. 11:1). And in the end, faith reveals who the true children are (Gal. 3:7-9; Rom. 2:28-29).