For she crieth after us (οτ κραζε οπισθεν ημων). The disciples greatly disliked this form of public attention, a strange woman cry…

But he answered her not a word. This was done to test her faith, and to exhibit to the apostles an example of the effect of persevering su…

He answered her not a word — Two alternative views present themselves regarding our Lord’s action in this matter. The first view, …

A woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried to him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, You Son of David; my daughter is grievously …

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

Matthew’s Jewish readers would be intensely interested in Jesus’ doing a miracle to aid a Gentile, on Gentile territory. Jesus’ silence does not qu…

But he made no reply to her. In various ways the Evangelists commend the faith of this woman. Here they present to us her unshaken constan…

But he answered her not a word
Not that he did not hear her, or that he despised either her person or petition, or t…

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 …