Healing Miracles
Healing the Syrophoenician Woman's Daughter
Great Faith of a Gentile Mother
Description
A Canaanite woman pleaded persistently for her demon-possessed daughter's healing. Though Jesus initially tested her faith, her humble persistence and witty response won His commendation of her 'great faith,' and her daughter was healed instantly.
Key Verses
Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon. And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou Son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil... Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour.