20 These are the things which defile the man: but to eat with unwashed hands, defileth not the man.

21 (A)And Jesus went thence, and departed into the [a]coasts of Tyre and Sidon.

22 And behold, a woman a [b]Canaanite came out of the same coasts, and cried, saying unto him, Have mercy on me, O Lord, the son of David: my daughter is miserably vexed with a devil.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 15:21 Coasts which were near to Tyre and Sidon, that is, in that quarter where Palestine bendeth toward Phoenicia, and the sea of Syria.
  2. Matthew 15:22 Of the flock of the Canaanites, which dwelled in Phoenicia.

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