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Welcome back to BPotW. In typical Mark fashion, the prose in this week's passage is terse and deceptively simple. The story almost reads like a parable.
Matthew offers a parallel version which could be worthwhile to compare with this week's text. But please, as we get started, let us focus on Mark 7: 24-30
The central metaphor of the story (bread and crumbs) has been speaking to me for reasons as yet unknown. Always interesting when this happens.
The story contains many familiar themes. It opens with Jesus attempting to take a break and someone demanding his attention. She is an outsider. A Gentile! A woman!
It is a story of faith bringing about something remarkable. A child is healed by a mother's faith.
It is a healing story. A miracle story.
But is it more? What do you make of this short passage? Is it speaking to you in any way? Of note is the exchange of words and wit between Jesus and the Syrophoenician woman.
Do you think she persuaded Jesus to change his mind? As his ministry expands to include a Gentile woman, is Jesus growing in wisdom and self-awareness?
Matthew offers a parallel version which could be worthwhile to compare with this week's text. But please, as we get started, let us focus on Mark 7: 24-30
Bible Gateway passage: Mark 7:24-30 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
The Syrophoenician Woman’s Faith - From there he set out and went away to the region of Tyre. He entered a house and did not want anyone to know he was there. Yet he could not escape notice, but a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit immediately heard about him, and she came and...
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The central metaphor of the story (bread and crumbs) has been speaking to me for reasons as yet unknown. Always interesting when this happens.
The story contains many familiar themes. It opens with Jesus attempting to take a break and someone demanding his attention. She is an outsider. A Gentile! A woman!
It is a story of faith bringing about something remarkable. A child is healed by a mother's faith.
It is a healing story. A miracle story.
But is it more? What do you make of this short passage? Is it speaking to you in any way? Of note is the exchange of words and wit between Jesus and the Syrophoenician woman.
Do you think she persuaded Jesus to change his mind? As his ministry expands to include a Gentile woman, is Jesus growing in wisdom and self-awareness?