The Syrophoenician Woman’s Faith (MRK 7:24-30)

[7:24] And from there he arose and went away to the region of Tyre and Sidon. And he entered a house and did not want anyone to know, yet he could not be hidden.

[7:25] But immediately a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit heard of him and came and fell down at his feet.

[7:26] Now the woman was a Gentile, a Syrophoenician by birth. And she begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter.

[7:27] And he said to her, “Let the children be fed first, for it is not right to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”

[7:28] But she answered him, “Yes, Lord; yet even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.”

[7:29] And he said to her, “For this statement you may go your way; the demon has left your daughter.”

[7:30] And she went home and found the child lying in bed and the demon gone.

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