Therefore He not only kept silence, but had actually left the house, and-as will presently appear-was proceeding on His way back, when this woman accosted Him. He had said expressly to the Twelve, "Go not into the way of the Gentiles" ( Mat 10:5 ) and being now among them Himself, He would, for consistency's sake, let it be seen that He had not gone thither for missionary purposes. Here we must go to Mat 15:23-25 for some important links in the dialogue omitted by our Evangelist.īut he answered her not a word-The design of this was first, perhaps, to show that He was not sent to such as she. Thus, though no Israelite herself, she salutes Him as Israel's promised Messiah. Matthew ( Mat 15:22 ) calls her "a woman of Canaan"-a more intelligible description to his Jewish readers (compare Jdg 1:30, 32, 33 ).Īnd she besought him that he would east forth the devil out of her daughter-"She cried unto Him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David: my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil" ( Mat 15:22 ). JUVENAL uses the same term, as was remarked by JUSTIN MARTYR and TERTULLIAN. The woman was a Greek-that is, "a Gentile," as in the Margin.Ī Syrophoenician by nation-so called as inhabiting the Phoenician tract of Syria. Heard of him-One wonders how but distress is quick of hearing.Ģ6. For a certain woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit-or, as in Matthew ( Mat 15:22 ), "was badly demonized." But though not " sent but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel" ( Mat 15:24 ), He hindered not the lost sheep of the vast Gentile world from coming to Him, nor put them away when they did come-as this incident was designed to show.īut he could not be hid-Christ's fame had early spread from Galilee to this very region ( Mar 3:8 Luk 6:17 ).Ģ5.
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His immediate object seems to have been to avoid the wrath of the Pharisees at the withering exposure He had just made of their traditional religion.Īnd entered into an house, and would have no man know it-because He had not come there to minister to heathens. But did Jesus actually enter this heathen territory? The whole narrative, we think, proceeds upon the supposition that He did. Of Tyre and Sidon-the two great Phoenician seaports, but here denoting the territory generally, to the frontiers of which Jesus now came. And from thence he arose, and went into the borders-or "unto the borders." The first words of this narrative show that the incident followed, in point of time, immediately on what precedes it.Ģ4. The Syrophoenician Woman and Her Daughter ( Mar 7:24-30 ).
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THE SYROPHOENICIAN WOMAN AND HER DAUGHTER-A DEAF AND DUMB MAN HEALED.
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The Gospel According to Mark Commentary by DAVID BROWN CHAPTER 7 Mar 7:1-23.