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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.
But He answered her not a word. And His disciples came and besought Him, saying, Send her away, for she crieth after us.
Verse Matthew 15:23. _HE ANSWERED HER NOT A WORD._] Seemed to take time to consider her request, and to give her the opportunity of _exercising_ her _faith_, and _manifesting_ her _fervour_....
This narrative is also found in Mark 7:24. THE COASTS OF TYRE AND SIDON - These cities were on the seacoast or shore of the Mediterranean. See the notes at Matthew 11:21. Jesus went there for the purp...
3. THE CORRUPTION OF THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES; THE CANAANITISH WOMAN AND HER FAITH; THE MULTITUDES HEALED. CHAPTER 15 1. The Question of the Scribes and Pharisees.(Matthew 15:1 .) 2. His Answer. (M...
THE HEALING OF THE GREEK WOMAN'S DAUGHTER (Mark 7:24 *). Lk. may have thought the story unacceptable to his Gentile readers. Mt. adds the saying, I was not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of...
And Jesus left there, and withdrew to the districts of Tyre and Sidon. And, look you, a Canaanite woman from these parts came and cried, "Have pity upon me, Sir, Son of David! My daughter is grievousl...
CLEAN AND UNCLEAN (Matthew 15:1-9)...
BUT, &C. Because. Gentile had no claim on the Son of David. Figure of speech _Accismus._ App-6....
The Daughter of a Canaanite Woman is cured Mark 7:24-30 This narrative of faith without external observance or knowledge of the Law affords a suggestive contrast to the preceding discourse....
_answered her not a word_ Jesus, by this refusal, tries the woman's faith, that he may purify and deepen it. Her request must be won by earnest prayer, "lest the light winning should make light the pr...
THE DAUGHTER OF A CANAANITE WOMAN IS CURED Mark 7:24-30 This narrative of faith without external observance or knowledge of the Law affords a suggestive contrast to the preceding discourse. It is no...
ΟΥ̓Κ�. Jesus, by this refusal, tries the woman’s faith, that He may purify and deepen it. Her request must be won by earnest prayer, ‘lest the light winning should make light the prize.’ Observe that...
Ver 21. Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon. 22. And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, "Have mercy on me, O Lord, t...
_A CHANGE OF HEART BRINGS YOU TO JESUS MATTHEW 15:21-28_ : A woman with a changed heart came to Jesus asking for help for her daughter. "And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and...
ΆΠΕΚΡΊΘΗ _aor. ind. pass. (dep.), см._ Matthew 15:3. ΠΡΟΣΕΛΘΌΝΤΕΣ _aor. act. part. от_ ΠΡΟΣΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G4334) приходить. Temp, или сопутств. _part._ ΉΡΏΤΟΥΝ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΕΡΩΤΆΩ (G2065) спрашиват...
BUT HE ANSWERED HER NOT A WORD— Jesus did not seem to regard the woman, intending that the greatness of her faith should be made to appear; an end, highly worthy of the wisdom of Jesus; because it not...
TEXT: 15:21-28 21 And Jesus went out thence, and withdrew into the parts of Tyre and Sidon, 22 And behold, a Canaanitish woman came out from those borders, and cried, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord,...
Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon. For the exposition, see the notes at Mark 7:24....
21 Compare Mar_7:24-30. 21 The incident of the Canaanitish woman is of surpassing interest to us, for it shows clearly what was the status of the nations in our Lord's ministry. Her very mistakes are...
THE CANAANITISH WOMAN (Mark 7:24). The two accounts are, however, independent....
SEND HER AWAY] viz. by granting her request and healing her daughter....
THE TRADITIONS OF THE ELDERS. THE CANAANITISH WOMAN. FEEDING THE FOUR THOUSAND 1-20. Unwashed hands and the traditions of the elders (Mark 7:1). In this important controversy Jesus defined His positio...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 15 The three sections of chapter 15 show Jesus’ attitude to people who were not *Jews. He wanted them to be happy with the good news...
HE ANSWERED HER NOT A WORD. — Two alternative views present themselves as to our Lord’s action in this matter. That which has found favour with nearly all ancient and most modern interpreters assumes...
CHAPTER 12 The Crisis in Galilee Matthew 14:1 - Matthew 15:1 - Matthew 16:1. THE lives of John and of Jesus, lived so far apart, and with so little intercommunication, have yet been interwoven in a...
_Woman of Canaan_ (Mark 7:24-30). This excursion to the north is the result of a passionate longing to escape at once from the fever of popularity and from the _odium theologicum_ of Pharisees, and to...
ὁ δὲ οὐκ ἀπ.: a new style of behaviour on the part of Jesus. The _rôle_ of indifference would cost Him an effort. ἠρώτων (ουν W. and H [93] as if contracted from ἐρωτέω), besought; in classics the ver...
THE REWARD OF AN OUTSIDER'S FAITH Matthew 15:21-28 A crumb from the table of our Lord can make the heart satisfied and glad. But the suppliant must take the right place and give Him His right place....
The question was not of cleanliness, but of ritual. This washing of hands to remove imaginary evil was a part of the tradition of the elders. Against the binding of such burdens on men our Lord passio...
(5) But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us. (5) In that Christ sometimes shuts his ears, as it were, to the prayers of...
_He answered her not. It must not be supposed that our Saviour refused to hear the woman through any contempt, but only to shew that his mission was in the first instance to the Jews; or to induce her...
THE SYROPHENICIAN WOMAN Matthew 15:21-28; Mark 7:24-30. “And rising up, He departed thence into the regions of Tyre and Sidon. And having come into a house, he wished no one to know it; and He was not...
"But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us. (24) But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the ho...
Chapter 8, which opens the portion that comes before us tonight, is a striking illustration as well as proof of the method which God has been pleased to employ in giving us the apostle Matthew's accou...
_THE WOMAN OF CANAAN_ ‘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,’ e...
_DIVINE SILENCES_ ‘But He answered her not a word.’ Matthew 15:23 Christ had His moods of sternness. These words of Our Lord suggest a thoughtful consideration of what we may call the Divine silenc...
23._But he made no reply to her. _In various ways the Evangelists bestow commendation on the faith of this woman. Here they bring before us her unshaken constancy; for the silence of Christ was a sort...
chapter 15 displays man and God, the moral contrast between the doctrine of Christ and that of the Jews; and thus the Jewish system is rejected morally by God. When I speak of the system, I speak of t...
BUT HE ANSWERED HER NOT A WORD,.... Not that he did not hear her, or that he despised either her person or petition, or that he was not moved with it; but to continue her importunity, and try her fait...
But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us. Ver. 23. _But he answered her not_] _Tacet ore, sed loquitur ei spirit, ut for...
_Jesus departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon_ Not to those cities which were to have no share in his mighty works, Matthew 11:21; but into that part of the land of Israel which bordered on their...
SEND HER AWAY; by granting her request....
After the power and grace of the Lord Jesus has wrought so great, refreshing blessing, the cold, barren criticism of scribes and Pharisees of Jerusalem is an example of how the deadening principle of...
21-28 The dark corners of the country, the most remote, shall share Christ's influences; afterwards the ends of the earth shall see his salvation. The distress and trouble of her family brought a wom...
Ver. 22,23. Mark saith, _A certain woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet: the woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought hi...
Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XI Likewise, again, the disciples who conceive nothing great about the Canaanitish woman say, "Send her away, for she crieth after us; "[215]...
Matthew 15:23 But G1161 answered G611 (G5662) her G846 not G3756 word G3056 And G2532 His G846 disciples...
JESUS BEGINS TO MOVE TOWARDS THE GENTILES (15:22-28). Jesus now moves for safety and quiet towards Tyre and Sidon. There were many Jews in the area who had shown an interest in hearing Him (see Mark 3...
‘But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and begged him, saying, “Send her away, for she continually calls after us.” ' Jesus did not answer her. We should note in this regard that she...
Matthew 15:23. BUT HE ANSWERED HER NOT A WORD. (Matthew 15:23-25, peculiar to Matthew.) By this unwonted silence our Lord would try her faith; and prove it to His disciples. They were Jews, and must l...
FOR SHE CRIETH AFTER US (οτ κραζε οπισθεν ημων). The disciples greatly disliked this form of public attention, a strange woman crying after them. They disliked a sensation. Did they wish the woman...
Matthew 15:23 Out of many lessons to be drawn from the terrible and touching narrative of the Gospel for the Second Sunday of Lent we notice three. I. With respect to the disciples. We may learn from...
Matthew 15:22 Mother's Love. I. Our Lord judged this woman after He had tried her, as gold is tried in the fire. Why He did so we cannot tell. Perhaps He wanted by the trial to make her a better woma...
Matthew 15:18. _But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, theft...
Matthew 15:1. _Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which were of Jerusalem, saying,_ Our Lord had been busily engaged in healing the sick, and now these pettifoggers came round about him to try...
Matthew 15:1. then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which were of Jerusalem, saying, Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread....
Matthew 15:10. _And he called the multitude, and said unto them, Hear, and understand: Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man, but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man._...
Matthew 15:13. _But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted shall be rooted up._ He had not any peculiar tenderness towards them, they were no plants of his Fathe...
Matthew 15:21. _Then Jesus went thence,_ He was glad to get away from the scribes and Pharisees, who had been disputing about such trifles as the washing of his disciples' hands; he was tired of the...
Jesus had been in conflict with the Scribes and Pharisees. He never liked such discussions, and though he was always victorious in every controversy, it grieved his spirit. Matthew 15:21. _Then Jesus...
CONTENTS: Scribes and Pharisees rebuked. Syrophonecian's daughter healed. The multitude healed. 4000 fed. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Peter, (disciples), Syrophonecian woman, her daughter. CONCLUSION: The Ch...
Matthew 15:2. _Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders?_ The cabala, or unwritten law, was counted by the pharisees of equal authority with the law itself. Rabbi Aquiba says, he wh...
BUT JESUS DID NOT SAY A WORD TO HER. He acted this way in order to be able to teach an important lesson here....
JESUS SENDS A DEMON OUT OF A GIRL MATTHEW 15:21-28; MARK 7:24-30; MATTHEW 15:21 Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon....
CHAPTER 15 _Then there came to Him_, &c. The Scribes of Jerusalem, as being at the very fountain head of faith and religion, arrogated to them selves the right of censuring the doctrine of new teache...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 15:21. DEPARTED.—_Withdrew_ (R.V.) for retirement (Mark 7:24). COASTS.—_Parts_ (R.V.). The reference is apparently to the places of Galilee that bordered on the narrow strip o...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 15:1 _Discourse concerning ceremonial pollution. _(Mark 7:1.) MATTHEW 15:1 THEN. This is after the third Passover, which wheth
Then came to Jesus Scribes and Pharisees, which were from Jerusalem (Matthew 15:1), Hey, these guys had come a long way to challenge Him. They came all the way from Jerusalem clear up to Galilee, whi...
Deuteronomy 8:2; Genesis 42:7; Lamentations 3:8; Mark 10:47; Mark 10:48
Send her away. With here request granted; for, as Bengel exquisitely remarks, "Thus Christ was accustomed to send away....
He answered her not a word — He sometimes tries our faith in like manner....
Strange! That. miserable supplicant should cry and sue, whilst the God of mercy is speechless. What! is the fountain of mercy dried up?. Saviour! we have oft found cause to wonder at thy words, but ne...