23But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And when it was evening, his disciples came to him, saying, This is a desert place, and the time is now past; send the multitude away, that they may go into the villages, and buy themselves victuals.
And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.
A Psalm of David. Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out, and say, Jesus, thou Son of David, have mercy on me. …
Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
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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