But she came and knelt before him, saying: Lord, help me. The woman's response to the boundary statement: she comes and kneels, reducing the petition to its absolute minimum: Lord, help me. The kneeling communicates the posture of worship and desperate dependence; the help me strips the request of all elaboration. The woman who has been told she is outside the mission's scope does not argue — she kneels.

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