Mark 7:29 — Community Reflections

MARK 7:29 — KING JAMES VERSION 0

“And he said unto her, For this saying go thy way; the devil is gone out of thy daughter.”

Then he told her, for such a reply, you may go; the demon has left your daughter — for such a reply — the response is the commendation that the faith behind the reply has earned. The healing is granted: the demon has left your daughter, stated in the perfect tense — the healing has already occurred, while the woman is still present in the house. The Syrophoenician woman's faith — Gentile faith in the Jewish Messiah — has produced the healing of her daughter at a distance, without Jesus going to the house or touching the child.

Church Fathers on Mark 7:29

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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