Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon.
This miracle shows how Christ's grace began to flow toward the Gentiles before His full revelation after the resurrection. The Canaanite woman stands as a remarkable example of faith, one whom the heathen, untaught in the law, came to Christ of her own accord, while the Jews, instructed in all things, were justly deprived of redemption by their shameful impiety.
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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
Christ withdrew into the borders of Tyre and Sidon, not into those cities themselves, for as He commanded His disciples not to go among the Gentiles, neither did He. He departed privately to escape the multitude and to avoid the snares the Scribes and Pharisees were laying for Him, greatly galled by His strong arguments against their tradition-bound wickedness.
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