22And, 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.
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And when Jesus departed thence, two blind men followed him, crying, and saying, Thou Son of David, have mercy on us.
Lord, have mercy on my son: for he is lunatick, and sore vexed: for ofttimes he falleth into the fire, and oft into the water.
For a certain woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet: …
And he cried, saying, Jesus, thou Son of David, have mercy on me. …
And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the rich among the people shall intreat thy favour.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 21-28)We have here that famous story of Christ’s casting the devil out of the woman of Canaan’s daughter ; it has something in it singular and very surprising, and which looks favourably upon the poor Gentiles, and is an earnest of the mercy which Christ had in store for them. Here is a gleam of that light which was to lighten the Gentiles , Luke 2:32. Christ came to his own, and his own received him no…
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