MATTHEW 15:25 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me.”
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.
Church Fathers on Matthew 15:25
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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