Charles Ellicott Commentary Matthew 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." — Matthew 15:28 (ASV)

O woman, great is thy faith — The woman's answer changed the conditions of the problem and, we may reverently add, therefore changed the purpose that depended on them. Here again, as in the case of the centurion, our Lord found a faith greater than any He had met with in Israel. The woman was, in St. Paul’s words, a child of the faith, though not of the flesh, of Abraham (Romans 4:16), and as such was entitled to its privileges. She believed in the love of God her Father and in the pity even of the Prophet who had answered her with words of seeming harshness.

Be it unto thee even as thou wilt — St. Mark adds that our Lord said, “Go thy way; the devil is gone out of thy daughter.” He also records that when the woman went to her house, she found her child laid on the bed, where calm, peace, and slumber had taken the place of restless frenzy.

It is obvious that the lesson of this story stretches far and wide. Wherever a person is by birth, creed, or even sin—among those whom the judgment of the heirs of religious privileges counts unworthy of even the lowest spiritual blessings, among outcasts and heirs of shame, the excommunicated and the lost—there the thought that “the dogs under the table eat of the children’s crumbs” may bring, as it has often brought, the faith that changes despair into something not far short of the full assurance of hope.