CHAPTER XXIX.
SYROPHENICIAN WOMAN—BLIND MEN—FEEDS FOUR THOUSAND.
THEN Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon. And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord thou Son of David: my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil. But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away, for she crieth after us. But he answered and said,
I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
And (he) entered into an house, and would have no man know it: but he could not be hid. For a certain woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet, and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me. The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation: and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter. But Jesus said unto her,
Let the children first be filled; for it is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it unto the dogs.
And she answered and said unto him, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs under the table, eat of the children's crumbs which fall from their masters' table. Then Jesus answered and said unto her,
O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt.
And he said unto her,