Verse 21
§ 67. HEALING OF THE SYROPHENICIAN WOMAN’S DAUGHTER OTHER MIRACLES, Matthew 15:21-32 .
21. Then Jesus went thence So aggravated was the previous hostility of the Pharisees toward our Lord in consequence of his refutation just given, that he seems to have left Capernaum on account of their machinations. He was also at this time, since the death of John the Baptist, an object of notice by Herod Antipas. Unsafe, therefore, from the ruling powers of both Judea and Galilee, we suddenly find him on the margin of the Mediterranean. See note on Matthew 14:13. Tyre and Sidon Lying upon the Mediterranean Sea, in the northwestern part of Judea.
Mark says that Jesus “entered into an house and would have no man know it: but he could not be hid. For a certain woman,” etc. Yet it seems by Matthew’s account that Jesus and his disciples were out of doors, on their way. The for, therefore, of Mark only qualifies the last clause, and introduces an instance or illustration of the fact that Jesus could not maintain his concealment.
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