Matthew 15:27 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 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, Luke 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, Matt.... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Matthew 15:21-28

15:21-28 And Jesus left there, and withdrew to the districts of Tyre and Sidon. And, look you, a Canaanite woman from these parts came and cried, "Have pity upon me, Sir, Son of David! My daughter is grievously afflicted by a demon." But he answered her not a word. His disciples came and asked him, "Send her away, for she is shrieking behind us." Jesus answered, "I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel." She came and knelt in entreaty before him. "Lord," she said, "help me!" Jesus... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Matthew 15:21-28

There are certain things about this woman which we must note. (i) First and foremost, she had love. As Bengel said of her, "She made the misery of her child her own." Heathen she might be, but in her heart there was that love for her child which is always the reflection of God's love for his children. It was love which made her approach this stranger; it was love which made her accept his silence and yet still appeal; it was love which made her suffer the apparent rebuffs; it was love which... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Matthew 15:27

And she saith, truth, Lord ,.... She owns all that he had said to be true, that he was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel: that she was indeed but a dog, a poor sinful creature, and unworthy of any favour; and that it was not right and fitting that all the children's bread should be taken from them and given to dogs: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their master's table . The Syriac and Persic versions add "and live": thus she wisely lays hold upon and... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 15:27

Truth, Lord - Ναι κυριε , Yes, Lord. This appears to be not so much an assent, as a bold reply to our Lord's reason for apparently rejecting her suit. The little dogs share with the children, for they eat the crumbs which fall from their masters' table. I do not desire what is provided for these highly favored children, only what they leave: a single exertion of thy almighty power, in the healing of my afflicted daughter, is all that I wish for; and this the highly favored Jews can well... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 15:27

Verse 27 27.Certainly, Lord. The woman’s reply showed that she was not hurried along by a blind or thoughtless impulse to offer a flat contradiction (420) to what Christ had said. As God preferred the Jews to other nations, she does not dispute with them the honor of adoption, and declares, that she has no objection whatever that Christ should satisfy them according to the order which God had prescribed. She only asks that some crumbs — falling, as it were, accidentally — should come within the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 15:21-28

Healing of the daughter of the Canaanitish woman. ( Mark 7:24-30 .) read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 15:21-28

Departure from the Holy Land. I. THE JOURNEY NORTHWARDS . 1 . The Lord leaves Galilee. He had been teaching there long, perhaps for two years. At first there had been a time of dazzling popularity. The strange dignity of his personality, the Divine authority of his words, the singular originality of his teaching, the pure holiness of his perfect life, his many deeds of love and mercy and power, had drawn multitudes around him. The world was going after him, the Pharisees said;... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 15:21-28

The triumph of a mother's love. Jesus was beyond the borders of Palestine, on heathen soil. He had not extended his travels in order to carry his ministry to the heathen; but he was in retirement. He had left Galilee because the Galilaeans were in a restless state—many of them perplexed by his teaching and turning from him, and also because the official teachers were seriously impeding his work. After this our Lord never resumed his old open ministry by the seashore and on the hillside. Yet... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 15:21-28

The Syro-Phoenician woman. The peculiarity of the incident here related is not the cure wrought, but the refusal with which the mother's petition was at first met. It did not need a sympathy such as our Lord's to urge him to dismiss this foul intrusion into the innocent and happy days of childhood; it did not need his hatred of evil to urge him to rebuke the Satanic malice, which could exult in attacking, not the aged sinner, but the pure child who knew nothing of the sources of disease and... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Matthew 15:21-28

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Matthew 15:21-28

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Matthew 15:21-28

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Matthew 15:27

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 15:27

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 15:27

The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 15:21-28

The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 15:21-28

The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 15:21-28

The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 15:21-28

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