Mark 7:26
26 The woman was a Greek, born in Syrian Phoenicia. She begged Jesus to drive the demon out of her daughter.
Other Translations of Mark 7:26
King James Version
26 The woman was a Greek,
English Standard Version
26 Now the woman was a Gentile, a Syrophoenician by birth. And she begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter.
The Message
26 begging for help. The woman was Greek, Syro-Phoenician by birth. She asked him to cure her daughter.
New King James Version
26 The woman was a Greek, a Syro-Phoenician by birth, and she kept asking Him to cast the demon out of her daughter.
New Living Translation
26 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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Matthew Henry's Commentary on Mark 7:26
Commentary on Mark 7:24-30
(Read Mark 7:24-30)
Christ never put any from him that fell at his feet, which a poor trembling soul may do. As she was a good woman, so a good mother. This sent her to Christ. His saying, Let the children first be filled, shows that there was mercy for the Gentiles, and not far off. She spoke, not as making light of the mercy, but magnifying the abundance of miraculous cures among the Jews, in comparison with which a single cure was but as a crumb. Thus, while proud Pharisees are left by the blessed Saviour, he manifests his compassion to poor humbled sinners, who look to him for children's bread. He still goes about to seek and save the lost.