“For a certain woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet:”
In fact, as soon as she heard about him, a woman whose little daughter was possessed by an impure spirit came and fell at his feet — the Syrophoenician woman comes immediately upon hearing of Jesus' presence — the same urgency as Jairus in chapter 5. She falls at his feet in the same posture of supplication as Jairus (5:22) and the Gerasene man (5:6). The little daughter echoes Jairus's little daughter of chapter 5. The parallels are deliberate: the two daughters healed in chapter 5 are now supplemented by a third daughter in a Gentile household.
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