Healing Canaanite Daughter
Life of Jesus · Draft · BSB
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Date: Ministry in Galilee. A guided comparison of Gospel accounts, not a measured calendar or a claim that every parallel follows the same sequence.
In the region of Tyre and Sidon, a woman pleads for her daughter’s deliverance. The exchange about children’s bread and crumbs ends with Jesus granting her request, and Mark describes her finding the child restored at home.
Matthew calls her Canaanite; Mark calls her Greek and Syrophoenician. The difficult exchange concerns the scope and order of the mission, and the conclusion honors her response. The text does not give an exact house or village.
Primary Scripture
15:21 Leaving that place, Jesus withdrew to the district of Tyre and Sidon.
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.”
15:23 But Jesus did not answer a word. So His disciples came and urged Him, “Send her away, for she keeps crying out after us.”
15:24 He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”
15:25 The woman came and knelt before Him. “Lord, help me!” she said.
15:26 But Jesus replied, “It is not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to the dogs.”
15:27 “Yes, Lord,” she said, “even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their master’s table.”
15:28 “O woman,” Jesus answered, “your faith is great! Let it be done for you as you desire.” And her daughter was healed from that very hour.
7:24 Jesus left that place and went to the region of Tyre. Not wanting anyone to know He was there, He entered a house, but was unable to escape their notice.
7:25 Instead, a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit soon heard about Jesus, and she came and fell at His feet.
7:26 Now she was a Greek woman of Syrophoenician origin, and she kept asking Jesus to drive the demon out of her daughter.
7:27 “First let the children have their fill,” He said. “For it is not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to the dogs.”
7:28 “Yes, Lord,” she replied, “even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.”
7:29 Then Jesus told her, “Because of this answer, you may go. The demon has left your daughter.”
7:30 And she went home and found her child lying on the bed, and the demon was gone.
Related Scripture
Isaiah’s welcome for foreigners supplies a broader scriptural connection, without removing the tension in the exchange.
Location evidence
The accounts name the Tyre and Sidon region. The shaded region provides orientation; the city markers do not place the encounter in either city center.
Event map marker: Approximate region; [longitude, latitude] = [35.3, 33.4]. This is a teaching marker, not an exact event venue.
Sidon: Identified site. Coordinates [longitude, latitude]: [35.36635, 33.56317]. Classification source: rule.
Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire
Tyre: Identified site. Coordinates [longitude, latitude]: [35.19257, 33.27583]. Classification source: rule.
Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire
Tyre and Sidon region: Approximate region. Coordinates [longitude, latitude]: [35.3, 33.4]. Classification source: editorial.
Illustrative regional extent: [[35.1,33.1],[35.6,33.7]]; not a measured confidence interval.
Named Gospel setting; original approximate extent
Named Gospel setting; original approximate extent
For the class
How does the woman respond within the image Jesus uses?
Interpretation and reuse
Narrative order is a reading arrangement, not a proven chronology. Dates retain their stated uncertainty. An identified locality does not establish the exact venue or prove an event. Region extents and routes are illustrative, not surveyed boundaries or ancient roads. Draft material has not completed editorial review.
Record source: theographic (399)
Record source: editorial
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Place coordinates from OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, CC BY 4.0.
Teaching stops, summaries and regional extents are original editorial content of this atlas.
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