26The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter.
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And, 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.
Behold, these shall come from far: and, lo, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.
Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 24-30)See here, I. How humbly Christ was pleased to conceal himself . Never man was so cried up as he was in Galilee, and therefore, to teach us, though not to decline any opportunity of doing good, yet not to be fond of popular applause, he arose from thence, and went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon, where he was little known; and there he entered, not into a synagogue, or place of concourse, but in…
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