Mark 7:25 — Community Reflections

MARK 7:25 — KING JAMES VERSION 0

“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.

Church Fathers on Mark 7:25

After that the Lord had finished His teaching concerning food, seeing that the Jews were incredulous, He enters into the country of the Gentiles, for the Jews being unfaithful, salvation turns itself to the Gentiles.
Theophylact · 11th century

But if He wished to do so and could not, it appears as if His will was impotent; it is not possible however that our Saviour’s will should not be fulfilled, nor can He will a thing, which He knows ought not be.
Pseudo-Augustine · 5th century · Quaest e Vet. et N. Test. 77

Having entered also into the house, He commanded His disciples not to betray who He was to anyone in this unknown region, that they, on whom He had bestowed the grace of healing, might learn by His example, as far as they could, to shrink from the glory of human praise in the shewing forth of their miracles; yet they were not to cease from the pious work of virtue, when either the faith of the good justly deserved that miracles should be done, or the unfaithfulness of the…
Bede · 8th century · in Marc., 2, 30

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