Matthew 15:22 BSB — MannaFest

Matthew 15:22

And 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.”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And behold, a Canaanitish woman came out from those borders, and cried, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a demon.

KJV

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.

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Commentary

3 voices

Hilary of Poitiers

Commentary on Matthew 15.3 (367)

To grasp the inner motive of the Canaanite woman for obtaining what came to pass, we must reflect on the impact of her words. There is a firm belief that there was and still is in Israel a community of proselytes who passed over from the Gentiles into the works of the law. They had left behind their previous life and were bonded by the religion of a foreign and dominating law as though from home. The Canaanites were inhabiting the lands of present-day Judea.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

Jerome

Commentary on Matthew (420)

(Verse 21, 22) And Jesus went out from there and withdrew to the parts of Tyre and Sidon. And behold, a Canaanite woman came out from those territories and cried out to him, saying. He leaves behind the scribes and the Pharisees who accuse him, and he goes into the parts of Tyre and Sidon, in order to care for the Tyrians and Sidonians. But the Canaanite woman goes out from her former territories, in order to fervently plead for her daughter's healing. Note that in the fifteenth place, the daughter of the Canaanite woman is healed.

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

If Christ had not now made a visit to these coasts, though the mercy was worth travelling far for, it is probable that she had never come to him. Note, It is often an excitement to a dormant faith and zeal, to have opportunities of acquaintance with Christ brought to our doors, to have the word nigh us.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

A woman of Canaan - Matthew gives her this name because of the people from whom she sprung - the descendants of Canaan, Jdg 1:31, Jdg 1:32; but Mark calls her a Syrophenician, because of the country where she dwelt. The Canaanites and Phoenicians have been often confounded. This is frequently the case in the Septuagint. Compare Gen 46:10, with Exo 6:15, where the same person is called a Phoenician in the one place, and a Canaanite in the other. See also the same version in Exo 16:35; Jos 5:

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 2481: “Faith Victorious” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1896)

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Original language & word study

21 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
καὶ	kai	And	G2532 →
ἰδοὺ	idou	behold	G2400 →
γυνὴ	gunē	a woman	G1135 →
Χαναναία	Chananaia	Canaanite	G5478 →
ἀπὸ	apo	from	G575 →
τῶν	tōn	the	G3588 →
ὁρίων	horiōn	region	G3725 →
ἐκείνων	ekeinōn	same	G1565 →
ἐξελθοῦσα	exelthousa	having approached	G1831 →
ἔκραζεν	ekrazen	was crying out	G2896 →
λέγουσα·	legousa	saying;	G3004 →
ἐλέησόν	eleēson	do have mercy on	G1653 →
με,	me	me,	G3165 →
κύριε	kurie	Lord	G2962 →
υἱὸς	huios	Son	G5207 →
Δαυίδ.	Dauid	of David.	G1138 →
ἡ	hē	the	G3588 →
θυγάτηρ	thugatēr	daughter	G2364 →
μου	mou	of mine	G3165 →
κακῶς	kakōs	badly	G2560 →
δαιμονίζεται.¶	daimonizetai	is demonised.	G1139 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Psalms 4:1
Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness! You have relieved my distress; show me grace and hear my prayer.
leads to
- 2 Corinthians 1:10
  He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and He will deliver us. In Him we have placed our hope that He will yet again deliver us,
- Exodus 34:6–7
  Then the LORD passed in front of Moses and called out: “The LORD, the LORD God, is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness,
- Psalms 40:1–3
  I waited patiently for the LORD; He inclined to me and heard my cry.
- Psalms 18:18–19
  They confronted me in my day of calamity, but the LORD was my support.
Through
Matthew 9:27
As Jesus went on from there, two blind men followed Him, crying out, “Have mercy on us, Son of David!”
leads to
- Matthew 20:30–31
  And there were two blind men sitting beside the road. When they heard that Jesus was passing by, they cried out, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us!”
- Mark 10:46–48
  Next, they came to Jericho. And as Jesus and His disciples were leaving Jericho with a large crowd, a blind beggar named Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, was sitting beside the road.
- Matthew 11:5
  The blind receive sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is preached to the poor.
- Luke 18:38–39
  So he called out, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!”