A Canaanitish woman (γυνη Χαναναια). The Phoenicians were descended from the Canaanites, the original inhabitants of Palestine. Th…

A woman of Canaan. This woman is also called a Greek, a Syro-Phoenician by birth (Mark 7:26). In ancient times, the whole land…

A woman of Canaan — In the earlier books of the Old Testament, the terms "Canaanite" and "Canaan" were often applied broadly to al…

Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon. And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried u…

St. Jerome: Leaving the Scribes, Pharisees, and those critics, He passes into the regions of Tyre and Sidon so that He may he…

Jesus now entered pagan territory, where a woman came to him. Matthew’s use of the old term “Canaanite” shows that he cannot forget her ancestry: a…

Have compassion on me, O Lord. Though this woman was a foreigner and did not belong to the Lord’s flock, yet she had acquired some taste o…

And behold a woman of Canaan
That is, of Phoenicia, which was called Canaan; so Shaul, the son of a Canaanitish woma…

The dark corners of the country, the most remote, will share Christ's influences; afterwards, the ends of the earth will see His salvation. The dis…

Above, the sufficiency of His teaching was shown, because it did not require the observance of the Law. Here He shows that it is not restricted to …