And a Canaanite woman from that region came to Him, crying out, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me! My daughter is miserably possessed by a demon.”
This foreign woman had grasped something the Jews themselves had nearly lost: knowledge of the promised Messiah. Without some acquaintance with the Law and Prophets, she would never have named Him Son of David. Her faith sprang from God's Word, not from thin air, whatever Servetus foolishly claimed to the contrary.
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Christ left them justly, for willful prejudice against the Gospel provokes Him to withdraw His light. Yet into that dark corner near Tyre and Sidon He came with mercy in store, showing that the ends of the earth shall see His salvation even when the favored reject Him.
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Commenting on Matthew 15:21-28
She was a Gentile, a Syro-Phoenician, driven by distress for her daughter to seek Him out with a loud voice. Her titles for Him, Lord and Son of David, reveal her faith: that He commands all persons and diseases, and that He is the Messiah Himself.
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