ἀνεχώρησεν. Perhaps to avoid the hostility which this attack upon the Pharisees would arouse. St Mark preserves the connection ἀναστὰς� as if He had been teaching (καθίσας).

εἰς τὰ μέρη Τύρου καὶ Σιδῶνος. The reading adopted by the leading editors, Mark 7:31, ἦλθεν διὰ Σιδῶνος εἰς τὴν θάλασσαν τῆς Γαλιλαίας, makes it certain that Jesus crossed the borders of Palestine and passed through a Gentile land.

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