For a certain woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet:
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Gill's Exposition
The woman was a Greek,.... Or Gentile, an Heathen woman, which made her faith the more remarkable. So the Syriac, Persic, and Ethiopic versions call her; which she might be, and was, though she was a…
See this miracle explained in the notes at Mat 15:21-28. Mar 7:24 Would have no man know it - To avoid the designs of the Pharisees he wished to be retired. Mar 7:26 A Greek - The Jews called all…
Adam Clarke
A certain woman - See this account of the Syrophoenician woman explained at large, Mat 15:21-28 (note).
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…
Cambridge Bible
heard of him The fame of His miracles had already penetrated even to these old Phœnician cities, and we have seen (Mar 3:8) "a great multitude" from Tyre and Sidon coming to Him (comp. also Mat 4:24).
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