Then Jesus told her, “Because of this answer, you may go. The demon has left your daughter.”
Parallel translations
- WEB He said to her, “For this saying, go your way. The demon has gone out of your daughter.”
- KJV And he said unto her, For this saying go thy way; the devil is gone out of thy daughter.
- NKJV Then He said to her, “For this saying go your way; the demon has gone out of your daughter.”
- NASB And He said to her, “Because of this answer, go; the demon has gone out of your daughter.”
- NLT “Good answer!” he said. “Now go home, for the demon has left your daughter.”
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Quick answer
Jesus commended her words and declared the demon gone from her daughter. Her faith was rewarded with immediate deliverance.
Overview
Because of her faith-filled reply, Jesus granted the healing she sought, freeing her daughter at a distance. The episode shows that Christ's mercy extends to Gentiles who come in humble faith. It anticipates the gospel breaking down the dividing wall between Jew and Gentile, uniting all believers in Christ.
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- Matt 5:3“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
- Isa 66:2Has not My hand made all these things? And so they came into being,” declares the LORD. “This is the one I will esteem: he who is humble and contrite in spirit, who trembles at My word.
- Matt 8:9–13For I myself am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. I tell one to go, and he goes; and another to come, and he comes. I tell my servant to do something, and he does it.”
- Isa 57:15–16For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and humble in spirit, to restore the spirit of the lowly and revive the heart of the contrite.
- 1 Jn 3:8The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the very start. This is why the Son of God was revealed, to destroy the works of the devil.
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