something said (including the thought) · noun — accusative singular masculine
And
καὶkai
G2532
and · conjunction
his
αὐτοῦautou
G846
the reflexive pronoun self · personal pronoun — genitive singular masculine
disciples
μαθηταὶmathētai
G3101
a learner · noun — nominative plural masculine
came
προσελθόντεςproselthontes
G4334
to approach · verb — second aorist active participle, nominative plural masculine
besought
ἠρώτουνērōtoun
G2065
to interrogate · verb — imperfect active indicative, 3rd person plural
him
αὐτὸνauton
G846
the reflexive pronoun self · personal pronoun — accusative singular masculine
saying
λέγοντες·legontes
G3004
properly · verb — present active participle, nominative plural masculine
Send
ἀπόλυσονapoluson
G630
to free fully · verb — aorist active imperative, 2nd person singular
her
αὐτήν,autēn
G846
the reflexive pronoun self · personal pronoun — accusative singular feminine
away
ἀπολύωapolýō
G630
to free fully
for
ὅτιhoti
G3754
demonstrative · conjunction
crieth
κράζειkrazei
G2896
properly · verb — present active indicative, 3rd person singular
after
ὄπισθενopisthen
G3693
from G3700 (ὀπτάνομαι)) with enclitic of source · preposition
us
ἡμῶνhēmōn
G2257
of (or from) us
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).
Cross-references
Matthew 14:15 And when it was evening, his disciples came to him, saying, This is a desert place, and the time is now past; send the multitude away, that…
Genesis 42:7 And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whenc…
Psalms 28:1 Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
Lamentations 3:8 Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
Mark 10:47-48 And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out, and say, Jesus, thou Son of David, have mercy on me.
Deuteronomy 8:2 And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee,…
Cross-references from OpenBible.info (CC BY), in the lineage of the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain).
Commentary
Matthew Henry on Matthew 15:21-28
We have here that famous story of Christ's casting the devil out of the woman of Canaan's daughter; it has something in it singular and very surprising, and which looks favourably upon the poor Gentiles, and is an earnest of the mercy which Christ had in store for them. Here is a gleam of that light which was to lighten the Gentiles, Luk 2:32. Christ came to his own, and his own received him not; but many of them quarrelled with him, and were offended in him; and observe what follows, Mat 15:21.
I. Jesus went thence. Note, Justly is the light taken from those that either play by it, or rebel against it. When Christ and his disciples could not be quiet among them, he left them, and so left an…
THE WOMAN OF CANAAN AND HER DAUGHTER. (Mat 15:21-28)
But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us--(Also see on Mar 7:26.)
John Gill on Matthew 15:23
But he answered her not a word,.... Not that he did not hear her, or that he despised either her person or petition, or that he was not moved with it; but to continue her importunity, and try her faith, and make it manifest: for like reasons the Lord does not always, and immediately, answer the requests of his people. This giving her no answer, either that he would, or would not help her, carried in it a tacit repulse of her, and a denial of assistance to her; and it seems as if she did for a while desist from her application to him, and betook herself to his disciples to plead with him for her:
and his disciples came; to the house where he was; who, it seems by this, had been elsewhere;
a…
Matthew 15:21-28
Matthew 15:21-28
Mark 7:24-30
21. And Jesus departing thence withdrew into the territories of Tyre and Sidon. 22. And, lo, a woman of Canaan, who had come from those territories, cried saying, Have compassion on me, O Lord, thou son of David; my daughter is grievously afflicted by a devil. 23. But he made no reply to her, and his disciples approaching implored him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us. 24. But he answering said, I am not sent but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. 25. And she came and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me. 26. But he answering said, It is not seemly to take the children's bread, and throw it to the dogs. 27. But she said,…
The Church Fathers
Not from pharisaical pride, or the superciliousness of the Scribes, but that He might not seem to contravene His own decision, Go not into the way of the Gentiles. For He was unwilling to give occasion to their cavils, and reserved the complete salvation of the Gentiles for the season of His passion and resurrection. The disciples, as yet ignorant of the mysteries of God or moved by compassion, beg for this Chananæan woman; or perhaps seeking to be rid of her importunity.
Therefore this woman besought the Lord on behalf of her daughter, the church of the Gentiles. "But he did not answer her a word." It was not that the Lord was unwilling to heal her but that he might reveal her great faith and humility. Then the disciples were moved to mercy and pleaded with the Lord, saying, "Send her away, for she is crying after us." But he answered and said, "I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel." Now he said this to the crowd of Jews that they might have no excuse on the day of judgment, when they might pretend to say, "He wanted to come to the Gentiles rather than to us."
(de Cons. Ev. ii. 49.) A question of discrepancy is raised upon this, that Mark says the Lord was in the house when the woman came praying for her daughter. Indeed Matthew might have been understood to have omitted mention of the house, and yet to have been relating the same event; but when he says, that the disciples suggested to the Lord, Send her away, for she crieth after us, he seems to indicate clearly that the woman raised her voice in supplication, in following the Lord who was walking. We must understand then, that, as Mark writes, she entered in where Jesus was, that is, as he had noticed above, in the house; then, that as Matthew writes. He answered her not a word, and during this silence of both sides, Jesus left the house; and then the rest follows without any discordance.
The Church Fathers: public-domain translations (Ante-Nicene and Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers), verse-indexed by SermonIndex (CC BY 4.0).
Dictionary and topics
Syrophenician — “a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation” (Mark 7:26), i.e., a Gentile born in the Phoenician part of Syria. (See PHENICIA.) When our Lord retired into the borderland of Tyre and Sidon (Matt. 15:21), a…
Zabulon — (Matt. 4:13, 15; Rev. 7:8). See ZEBULUN.
Apostles · of the kingdom he — of the kingdom he
Demons · The daughter of the Syrophoenician woman — The daughter of the Syrophoenician woman
Miracles Of Christ, The · Devils cast out — Devils cast out
Tyre · .Heals the daughter of the non-Jewish, Syrophenician woman near — .Heals the daughter of the non-Jewish, Syrophenician woman near
Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).
