mnt - Matthew:15:21-28

mnt@Matthew:15:21 @ Jesus then left that place, and withdrew into the region of Tyre and Sidon.

mnt@Matthew:15:22 @ Behold, there came to him a Canaanite woman of those parts. She wailed loudly, saying. "Pity me, Lord, thou Son of David! My daughter is possessed of an evil spirit."

mnt@Matthew:15:23 @ But he answered her not a word. Then the disciples came up and kept beseeching him. "Send her away," they said, "because she wails after us."

mnt@Matthew:15:24 @ In reply he said, "I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel."

mnt@Matthew:15:25 @ But the woman came and knelt to him and said, "Lord, do help me."

mnt@Matthew:15:26 @ He answered, "It is not seemly to take the childrens bread and throw it to the little dogs."

mnt@Matthew:15:27 @ "True, Lord," she said, "but even the little dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters table."

mnt@Matthew:15:28 @ Then Jesus answered her. "O woman, great is your faith. It shall be for you even as you desire." And from that hour her daughter was healed.