Now she was a Greek woman of Syrophoenician origin, and she kept asking Jesus to drive the demon out of her daughter.
Parallel translations
- WEB Now the woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by race. She begged him that he would cast the demon out of her daughter.
- KJV The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter.
- NKJV The woman was a Greek, a Syro-Phoenician by birth, and she kept asking Him to cast the demon out of her daughter.
- NASB Now the woman was a Gentile, of Syrophoenician descent. And she repeatedly asked Him to cast the demon out of her daughter.
- NLT and she begged him to cast out the demon from her daughter. Since she was a Gentile, born in Syrian Phoenicia,
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The woman, a Syrophoenician Gentile, begged Jesus to free her daughter from a demon. Her request tests and reveals genuine faith.
Overview
Mark stresses the woman's Gentile identity, highlighting that she had no covenant claim on Israel's Messiah. Yet she persisted in pleading for her daughter's deliverance. Her encounter illustrates how faith, not ethnicity, opens the door to Christ's mercy, anticipating the gospel's reach to all nations.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 4
- Matt 15:22And a Canaanite woman from that region came to Him, crying out, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me! My daughter is miserably possessed by a demon.”
- Col 3:11Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, or free, but Christ is all and is in all.
- Isa 49:12Behold, they will come from far away, from the north and from the west, and from the land of Aswan.”
- Gal 3:28There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
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