Healing Canaanite Daughter

Scripture

• Matthew 15:21

  Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon.

• Matthew 15:22

  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 a devil.

• Matthew 15:23

  But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us.

• Matthew 15:24

  But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

• Matthew 15:25

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

• Matthew 15:26

  But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children’s bread, and to cast it to dogs.

• Matthew 15:27

  And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table.

• Matthew 15:28

  Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour.

• Mark 7:24

  And from thence he arose, and went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and entered into an house, and would have no man know it: but he could not be hid.

• Mark 7:25

  For a certain woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet:

• Mark 7:26

  The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter.

• Mark 7:27

  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.

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