The 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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Gill's Exposition
But Jesus said unto her,.... Not directly and immediately, upon her first request; for he answered not a word to that; but after his, disciples had desired she might be sent away, her cries being so…
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
The woman was a Greek - Rosenmuller has well observed, that all heathens or idolaters were called Ἑλληνες, Greeks, by the Jews; whether they were Parthians, Medes, Arabs, Indians, or Ethiopians. Jews…
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
a Greek St Matthew describes her as a "woman of Canaan" (Mat 15:22), St Mark calls her a Greek, a Syrophœnician. The first term describes her religion, that she was a Gentile; the second the stock of…
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