A Canaanite Woman’s Great Faith

21 And departing from there, Jesus went away to the region of Tyre and Sidon. 22 And behold, a Canaanite woman from that district came and cried out, saying, “Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David! My daughter is severely possessed by a demon!” 23 But he did not answer her a word. And his disciples came up and[a] asked him, saying, “Send her away, because she is crying out after us!”

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 15:23 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“came up”) has been translated as a finite verb