Miracles of Jesus - Syrophœnician's daughter healed

Syrophœnician's daughter healed

Matthew 15:21-28

Mat 15:21  And Jesus went out thence, and withdrew into the parts of Tyre and Sidon.

Mat 15:22  And behold, a Canaanitish woman came out from those borders, and cried, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a demon.

Mat 15:23  But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us.

Mat 15:24  But he answered and said, I was not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

Mat 15:25  But she came and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me.

Mat 15:26  And he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread and cast it to the dogs.

Mat 15:27  But she said, Yea, Lord: for even the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.

Mat 15:28  Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it done unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was healed from that hour.

Mark 7:24-29

Mar 7:24  And from thence he arose, and went away into the borders of Tyre and Sidon. And he entered into a house, and would have no man know it; and he could not be hid.

Mar 7:25  But straightway a woman, whose little daughter had an unclean spirit, having heard of him, came and fell down at his feet.

Mar 7:26  Now the woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by race. And she besought him that he would cast forth the demon out of her daughter.

Mar 7:27  And he said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children's bread and cast it to the dogs.

Mar 7:28  But she answered and saith unto him, Yea, Lord; even the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.

Mar 7:29  And he said unto her, For this saying go thy way; the demon is gone out of thy daughter.

Mar 7:30  And she went away unto her house, and found the child laid upon the bed, and the demon gone out.

Jesus Miracle of healing the demon possessed canannitish woman’s daughter teaches us very important lesson:

In the account of Matthew and Mark – When Jesus went away into the borders of Tyre and Sidon, there came a canannitish woman begging Jesus to heal her daughter. The following are the lessons Jesus teaches us from this miracle:

Jesus saw her cry:

And behold, a Canaanitish woman came out from those borders, and cried. God see us whenever we undergo trouble. Our cry he will hear, he will help us to overcome our troubles and stops our cry. He is a God of compassion. For every tears he will respond rightly – the bible says

Psalm 126:5 ASV

American Standard Version

They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.

Psalm 30:5 (KJV) | 

⁵ For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

Jesus saw her request:

When the women pleaded Jesus -

Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a demon.

Jesus heard her voice, her cry, and her sayings. Because he is God.

Jesus tested her:

But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us.  But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us.

And he said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children's bread and cast it to the dogs.

Jesus saw her faith, by the answer she gave:

Hebrews 11:6 NIV And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.

God saw that the woman was faithful, she believed in Jesus and she believed that nothing is impossible for him. Not any cast, distance, region or color or any other thing.. As paul says –

Romans 8:31-39

New Living Translation (NLT)

Nothing Can Separate Us from God’s Love

³¹ What shall we say about such wonderful things as these? If God is for us, who can ever be against us? ³² Since he did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all, won’t he also give us everything else? ³³ Who dares accuse us whom God has chosen for his own? No one—for God himself has given us right standing with himself. ³⁴ Who then will condemn us? No one—for Christ Jesus died for us and was raised to life for us, and he is sitting in the place of honor at God’s right hand, pleading for us.

³⁵ Can anything ever separate us from Christ’s love? Does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or hungry, or destitute, or in danger, or threatened with death? ³⁶ (As the Scriptures say, “For your sake we are killed every day; we are being slaughtered like sheep.”) ³⁷ No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us.

³⁸ And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,^[b] neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love.³⁹ No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Here in the miracle the women said - Yea, Lord: for even the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.

This shows her humble nature, knowing whom she asks and what she asks. For God knows the real nature and situation of her, she know that only Jesus can heal her daughter. She believed in him. She had faith so high. Her hope in Jesus did not fail.

Jesus healed her daughter:

Mat 15:28  Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it done unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was healed from that hour.

Mar 7:29  And he said unto her, For this saying go thy way; the demon is gone out of thy daughter.

Mar 7:30  And she went away unto her house, and found the child laid upon the bed, and the demon gone out.

The above miracle of Jesus teaches us the way we look into situations, we may have limited ourselves saying we belong to a certain community or group or region. But God has an answer for our problems when we ask him with complete faith and truth in our heart. It is said in the Holy Bible –

1 John 5:14-15 NIV This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. 15 And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.

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