MATTHEW 15:24 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”
He answered: I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. Jesus' first verbal response to the woman addresses the disciples rather than directly answering her: his mission is to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. The limitation is real — the Galilean ministry is the primary focus of the earthly mission — but the story is far from over. The boundary statement is not the final word; it is the context within which the woman's extraordinary faith will be displayed.
Church Fathers on Matthew 15:24
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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