MATTHEW 15:23 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us.”
But he did not answer her a word. And his disciples came and begged him, saying: send her away, for she is crying out after us. Jesus' silence — not an answer, not a refusal, just silence — is the most troubling element of the encounter. The disciples' request to send her away is the pragmatic response to an irritating situation: she is crying out after us. The disciples want to resolve the discomfort by dismissal.
Church Fathers on Matthew 15:23
aug hter was made whole from that very hour.
Leaving the Scribes and Pharisees and those cavillers, He passes into the parts of Tyre and Sidon, that He may heal the Tyrians and Sidonians; 'And Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon.'
Tyre and Sidon were Gentile towns, for Tyre was the metropolis of the Chananaeans, and Sidon the boundary of the Chananaeans towards the north.
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