Mark 7:25

There was a Greek woman who lived in Tyre. Her family came from Phone-ee-sha (Phoenicia) in a nearby country called Syria. She was not a Jewish person, and her daughter had a bad spirit in her. As soon as the woman heard that Jesus was in Tyre, she went to him and got down on her knees in front of him. She asked him to send the bad spirit out of her daughter.

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In The King James Version

For a certain woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet:

In Context

24Jesus took his followers north to a place called Tyre that was next to the sea. They stayed inside a house so that no-one would know they were there, but people soon found them.

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Cross References

Mark 5:22There was a man in the crowd whose name was Jairus. Jairus was one of the leaders for the Jewish meeting place near there. When Jairus saw Jesus, he went and fell down on his knees in front of him.

Mark 9:17One of the men said, “Teacher, I have my son with me, and he has a bad spirit inside him that stops him from talking.

Matthew Henry on Mark 7:25-31

The Syrophenician Woman. 24 And from thence he arose, and went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and entered into a house, and would have no man know it: but he could not be hid. 25 For a certain woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet: 26 The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter. 27 But Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the… Read the whole commentary →

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