Casting Out Demons

The Syrophoenician Woman's Daughter

Great Is Thy Faith

Description

A Gentile woman persistently begged Jesus to cast a demon from her daughter. Despite initial rebuff, her humble faith prevailed, and her daughter was healed that very hour.

Key Verses

For a certain woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet: The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter... And he said unto her, For this saying go thy way; the devil is gone out of thy daughter.
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.

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