Mark 7:24-30

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Mark 7:24-30

Mark CHILDREN AND LITTLE DOGS Mar_7:24 - Mar_7:30 . Our Lord desired to withdraw from the excited crowds who were flocking after Him as a mere miracle-worker and from the hostile espionage of emissaries of the Pharisees, ‘which had come from Jerusalem.’ Therefore He sought seclusion in heathen territory. He, too, knew the need of quiet, and felt the longing to plunge into privacy, to escape for a time from the pressure of admirers and of foes, and to go where no man knew Him. How near to us... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Mark 7:24-37

a Mother’s Faith Rewarded Mark 7:24-37 Before faith can be fully exercised we must take the right attitude toward Christ. His mission at that time was to the Jewish people; they were the children. This woman had no claim as a child, and the question was whether she was prepared to take the lower place. It is the humble soul that has power with God, and when she showed herself prepared to put Jesus in His place as Lord, and to take her own place as willing to accept the children’s crumbs,... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Mark 7:1-37

In strong and clear language the Master denounced tradition as contrary to the commandment of God. 1. Things from without do not defile, and therefore are not sin. Temptation is not sin. 2. Only that is sin which comes from within, which is the deliberate outcome of the determining will of man. 3. Such determinings are the sources of defilement. 4. The list of evil things which the Master gives includes every possible form of evil, and these defile a man when they proceed from him in acts.... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Mark 7:24

THE EPIPHANIES OF THE MINISTRY‘He could not be hid.’ Mark 7:24 The Divine in Christ was revealed by the holiness of His character, by His mighty works ( John 2:11), by the authority and originality of His utterances, by the influence He exerted. Ultimately He could not go anywhere, even when seeking to conceal Himself, but some recognised Him. Christ was not hid— I. From His disciples.—‘These beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father’ ( John 1:14). They confessed Him... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Mark 7:28-29

PERSEVERANCE IN PRAYER‘And she answered and said unto Him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children’s crumbs. And he said unto her, For this saying go thy way; the devil is gone out of thy daughter.’ Mark 7:28-Joel : I. The example of faith.—Though apostles entreated that she might be sent away, yet this woman ‘cries unto’ our Lord, because He alone could save her. And though she had heard Him say He was not sent to those of her race, yet she repeats her entreaty, as... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Mark 7:1-37

Jesus begins To Reach Out To Gentiles (7:1-8:21). At this stage in His ministry Jesus begins to reach out further afield, for from this point on He spends much time preaching in territory which is mainly Gentile, although still containing many Jews. He prepares His disciples for it by His words to the Scribes and Pharisees, and then to the people, on what is truly essential, and then moves on to Tyre and Sidon where a Syro-phoenician woman’s simple faith brings home the right of Gentiles to... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Mark 7:23-37

Jesus Ministers in Gentile Territory - the Syro-phoenician Woman - the Feeding of Four Thousand Men (7:23-8:26). Having made His point strongly Jesus now moved to Gentile territory and seemingly remained there until Mark 8:10, where after a brief visit to Galilee He again returned to Decapolis. But first he moved to the borders of Tyre and Sidon. Then from the borders of Tyre He travelled through Sidon down to the Sea of Galilee ‘through the midst of the borders of Decapolis’. All this was... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Mark 7:24-25

‘And he arose from there and went away to the borders of Tyre and Sidon. And he went into a house and would have no one know it. But he could not be hidden, for immediately a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit, having heard of him, came and fell down at his feet.’ ‘From there.’ A general statement meaning ‘from where He was’ i.e. in context from Gennesaret - Mark 6:53 (or from the house - Mark 7:17). But there is no indication of how much time had elapsed. It is significant that... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Mark 7:24-30

Moving to Tyre - The Syro-phoenician Woman (7:24-30). That this incident was a turning point in the ministry of Jesus cannot be denied, and there are good grounds for arguing that Matthew’s Gospel revolves around it. For from this point onwards Jesus ceased ministering only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel and engaged in a wider all-inclusive ministry. That it was deliberate we need have no doubt. It was a recognition by Jesus that He had now received a message from His Father that... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Mark 7:26

‘Now the woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by race. And she pleaded with him that he would cast out the demon from her daughter.’ Mark, like Matthew, makes absolutely clear that the woman was not of the Jewish race. She was ‘a Greek’, although not by race for she was a Syrophoenician. So ‘a Greek’ probably simply means a Gentile. Alternately it may signify Greek in culture and language. ‘A Syrophoenician by race.’ A Phoenician of Syria in contrast to those of Carthage. ‘Pleaded with Him.’... read more

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