Mark 7:24-30

The Syrophenician woman's faith Mark 7:24-30: Jesus left the vicinity of the Sea of Galilee and journeyed to the region of Tyre and Sidon. He went into a house but it was impossible to be hidden from public notice. A Gentile woman, a Syrophenician lady came and fell at the feet of Jesus and begged Him repeatedly to heal her young, demon possessed daughter. Jesus responded to this woman in what sounds like a harsh response. He said, "Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it unto the dogs."

The woman did not resent what the Lord said. Her reply was "Yes, Lord, yet even the little dogs under the table eat the little children's scraps of food." She would be more than willing to accept the healing of her daughter as crumbs and leave the bulk of the Lord's teaching and work for the Jews. What the woman said pleased the Lord and He assured her that her daughter had been healed permanently. Matthew said the girl had been "grievously vexed" by the demon. (Matthew 15:22) When the mother returned home she found the girl just as the Lord had said. The demon was gone out and the girl was lying on a bed or couch.