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Mark 7:26 KJV
Mark · chapter 7 · verse 26
The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter.Mark 7:26 · King James Version
Mark 7:26 in context
24And from thence he arose, and went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and entered into an house, and would have no man know it: but he could not be hid.
25For a certain woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet:
26The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter.
27But Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children’s bread, and to cast it unto the dogs.
28And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children’s crumbs.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- SyropheniciansyrophoinikissaSyrophenician = " exalted palm" , the name of a mixed nation, half Phoenicians…G4949 →
- besoughterōtaōto question, to ask, to request, entreat, beg, beseechG2065 →
- nationgenoskindred, offspring, family, stock, tribe, nationG1085 →
- womangynēa woman of any age, whether a virgin, or married, or a widow, a wife, of a betrothed womanG1135 →
- Greekhellēnisa Greek women, a Gentile women, not a JewessG1674 →
- forthekballōto cast out, drive out, to send out, with notion of violence, to drive out , to cast out…G1544 →
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See here, I. How humbly Christ was pleased to conceal himself. Never man was so cried up as he was in Galilee, and therefore, to teach us, though not to decline any opportunity of doing good, yet not to be fond of popular applause, he arose from thence, and went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon, where he was little…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 24-30