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A Bold Woman (1 of 2)
Series: Matthew
D. Marion Clark
Matthew 15:21-28
Introduction
''Safe?'' said Mr. Beaver. ''Don't you hear what Mrs. Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? 'Course he isn't safe. But he's good. He's the King, I tell you.''
You perhaps recognize the quote from The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Mr. and Mrs. Beaver are telling the children about Aslan. It is a good description for Jesus, as one mother discovers in our passage.
Text
And Jesus went away from there and withdrew to the district of Tyre and Sidon.
This district is just north of the territory of Galilee. Jesus has gone there with his disciples, not to minister but to take a retreat from ministry. Mark tells us in his gospel that Jesus did not want anyone to know where he was. And yet, as a celebrity it is difficult to escape notice.
22 And behold, a Canaanite woman from that region came out and was crying, ''Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David; my daughter is severely oppressed by a demon.''
So again we have an interaction between Jesus and a woman. It is not the same scandal as before with the Samaritan woman in that this woman knows Jesus as a healer and is coming to him for that purpose. Note the humble way in which she approaches him. First, she cries out for mercy. The term for cry denotes great emotion such as wailing. She does not demand her rights. She does not insist that Jesus ought to help. She appeals, not to justice, but to mercy.
She also addresses him with great respect. She calls him ''Lord,'' not an unusual way to address someone of a higher position. It is the second title that catches attention - ''Son of David.''
Matthew's gospel opens with these words: ''The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham'' (1:1). The title will appear a number of times, some with people asking the same thing as this woman - for the Lord, Son of David, to have mercy. According to the religious authorit ...
Series: Matthew
D. Marion Clark
Matthew 15:21-28
Introduction
''Safe?'' said Mr. Beaver. ''Don't you hear what Mrs. Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? 'Course he isn't safe. But he's good. He's the King, I tell you.''
You perhaps recognize the quote from The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Mr. and Mrs. Beaver are telling the children about Aslan. It is a good description for Jesus, as one mother discovers in our passage.
Text
And Jesus went away from there and withdrew to the district of Tyre and Sidon.
This district is just north of the territory of Galilee. Jesus has gone there with his disciples, not to minister but to take a retreat from ministry. Mark tells us in his gospel that Jesus did not want anyone to know where he was. And yet, as a celebrity it is difficult to escape notice.
22 And behold, a Canaanite woman from that region came out and was crying, ''Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David; my daughter is severely oppressed by a demon.''
So again we have an interaction between Jesus and a woman. It is not the same scandal as before with the Samaritan woman in that this woman knows Jesus as a healer and is coming to him for that purpose. Note the humble way in which she approaches him. First, she cries out for mercy. The term for cry denotes great emotion such as wailing. She does not demand her rights. She does not insist that Jesus ought to help. She appeals, not to justice, but to mercy.
She also addresses him with great respect. She calls him ''Lord,'' not an unusual way to address someone of a higher position. It is the second title that catches attention - ''Son of David.''
Matthew's gospel opens with these words: ''The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham'' (1:1). The title will appear a number of times, some with people asking the same thing as this woman - for the Lord, Son of David, to have mercy. According to the religious authorit ...
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