XXXVIII
The Woman of Canaan
The Sayings of Jesus
A.D. 29. Age 32. Phenicia. Decapolis.
Matthew 15, 21-28: Mark 7, 24-36.
FROM thence Jesus went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon.
And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou Son of David: my daughter is grievously vexed with an unclean spirit.
The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation.
Jesus answered her not a word. And his disciples came, saying, Send her away. Jesus said,
I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
He entered into a house, and would have no man know it: but he could not be hid. For then came she whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, saying, Lord, help me.
But Jesus said unto her,
Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it unto the dogs.
She said, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs which fall from their masters' table. Jesus answered,
O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. For this saying go thy way; the devil is gone out of thy daughter.
Her daughter was made whole from that very hour.
¶Departing from the coasts of Tyre and Sidon, Jesus came unto the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the coasts of Decapolis.
They bring unto him one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his speech. Jesus took him aside, and put his fingers into his ears, and touched his tongue; and looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith,
Be opened.
Straightway his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain.
Jesus charged them that they should tell no man: but the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they published it.
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