Matthew 15:30

‘And there came to him great crowds, having with them the lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and they cast them down at his feet, and he healed them,'

That much has happened during the period that has past since the healing of the Canaanite woman's daughter becomes clear here, for there are now great crowds gathered to hear Him in Gentile territory, and the fact that they come up into the mountain to hear Him, as the disciples had done in Matthew 5:1, suggests a certain level of commitment. And there they brought to Him all their disabled. As we have already seen previously, Matthew tends to depict Jesus' work as the Servant in terms of healing and making whole (Matthew 8:17; compare Matthew 14:35; Matthew 10:1). To Him Jesus work is that of healing both body and soul. And the healings mentioned here echo the Messianic signs that Jesus had drawn John's attention to in Matthew 11:5. There may also be a reference to Zechariah 11:16 where the faithless shepherd does not heal ‘the maimed'. The healing of the maimed is thus there connected with the work of a faithful shepherd. So His Messianic ministry and making whole is now reaching out among the Gentiles (Matthew 12:18; Matthew 12:21). But along with it is undoubtedly the proclamation of the Good News of the Kingly Rule of Heaven (Matthew 4:23; Matthew 9:35; Matthew 13:1; Isaiah 61:1).