Crumbs! - Mark's Gospel (8)

Tune: Albano

('Once, only once, and once for all')

Mark 7 v.24-30

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Jesus did go to Tyre, Sidon

And there met a woman

A Syrian of Phoenicia

She did with Him confer

 

Lord, my daughter has a demon

A spirit, unclean one

Falling at His feet, she did plead

That He would meet her need

 

Her desire that He would cast out

The demon with no doubt

Cast it out from her daughter, so

She would her healing know

 

But Jesus said, Let the children

And too the women, men

The children of God, Jews they be

Let them be first filled, see

 

For 'tis not good the children's bread

To take, that dogs be fed

As little dogs, as household pets

Cared for with no regrets

 

True Lord, she said, and I Gentile

Am as a dog, my style

Under the table do I eat

Children's crumbs at their feet

 

For this saying, Jesus did say

Go home now, make your way

Your faith is shown, your daughter sure

Is healed, demon no more

 

And so was true, for she did see

Her daughter at home free

Laid on her bed in peace and calm

No demon more to harm