The woman had already heard the fame of Jesus (Mark 5:27). From what Jesus said to her she would for the first time get some idea of His exquisite sympathy, delicately expressed in the very first word: θύγατερ, daughter, to a mature woman, probably not much, if at all, younger than Himself! He speaks not as man to woman, but as father to child.

Note how vivid is Mark's story compared with the meagre colourless version of Matthew 1 A lively impressionable eye-witness, like Peter, evidently behind it.

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