“And from thence he arose, and went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and entered into an house, and would have no man know it: but he could not be hid.”
Jesus left that place and went to the vicinity of Tyre. He entered a house and did not want anyone to know it; yet he could not keep his presence secret — the movement to Tyre is a significant geographic shift: Tyre is Phoenician territory, fully Gentile. Jesus is extending the mission beyond Jewish Galilee, as he extended it to the Decapolis in chapter 5. He did not want anyone to know it: the desire for privacy and rest (cf. Mark 6:31) is frustrated by his reputation. Yet he could not keep his presence secret — the fame that followed him in Jewish Galilee follows him even into Gentile territory.
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