![]() ![]() Don’t Judge by Exteriors. Jesus doesn’t judge people by their nationality, race, or religious criteria. The woman “under the table” showed more faith than the people sitting at the table.ģ. A lot of Jewish people only saw Jesus as a rabbi, but this woman saw him as a Savior. The latter seems to be the case because this Canaanite woman’s humility and faith shined very brightly to Jesus, and He granted her request. Was He calling attention to the prejudice way of thinking that people of that time had? Was He actually putting down the woman? Or was it simply an illustration of Jesus sitting at the table with the Hebrew people while a pagan/Gentile woman saw the specialness of Jesus and sat under the table, like a dog, waiting for some kind of morsel. But it seems out of character for Him to use this comparison to a dog. Jesus did come to speak to the Hebrew people first. Jewish people of Jesus’s time didn’t think that such people deserved to be saved by God. The Canaanite woman represents the pagan, idolatrous, and unbelieving world. When the woman arrived at home, she saw that her daughter was healed, and the demon was gone. The woman kept on pleading her case by saying, “Lord, help me! Even dogs are allowed scraps that fall from their master’s table.” Jesus commended the woman’s faith and told her that her request was granted. Jesus finally replied, “It is not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to the dogs” ( Matthew 15:26). When Jesus was silent, the disciples tried to tell her to go away. However, this Canaanite woman found him, fell at his feet, and begged for him to heal her demon-possessed daughter. Jesus left Galilee and headed north to Tyre. Canaanite was a Greek term, but the Hebrew people would have called this woman a Gentile. The story of the Canaanite woman can be found in Matthew 15:21-28 and Mark 7:24-30. What Is the Story of the Canaanite Woman? What He says to this woman seems rough, but when we look a little closer at the passage, it’s not harsh at all. At first glance, Jesus’s reaction in the story of the Canaanite woman seems to be out-of-character.
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