Mark 7:24-30The Syrophoenician’s Woman’s Faith


James Tissot (French, 1836-1902). The Canaanite’s Daughter (La Chananéenne), 1886-1896. Opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper, Image: 9 1/16 x 5 9/16 in. (23 x 14.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Purchased by public subscription, 00.159.117 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 00.159.117_PS2.jpg)

From there, having set out, he went away into the region of Tyre, and having entered a house, he did not want anyone to know, and yet he was not able to be hidden. 

But immediately a woman, (who had a little daughter with an unclean spirit) having heard about him, came and fell at his feet. 

The woman was Greek, Syrophoenician by race. 

And she asked him to cast the demon out of her daughter. 

And he said to her: ‘Let the children be fed first, for it is not good to take the children’s bread and throw it to the little dogs.’

But she answered: ‘Lord, even the little dogs under the table eat the children’s little crumbs.’

And he said to her: ‘Because of this word go – the demon has left your little daughter.’

And when she went into her house, she found the little child lying on the bed and the demon gone. 

Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart;
Naught be all else to me, save that thou art –
Thou my best thought, by day or by night;
Waking or sleeping, thy presence my light.

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