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'The Syrophoenician woman's faith','

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Mk 7:24: And from thence he arose, and went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and entered into an house, and would have no man know it: but he could not be hid.

Mk 7:25: For a certain woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet:

Mk 7:26: The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter.

Mk 7:27: But Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it unto the dogs.

Mk 7:28: And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.

Mk 7:29: And he said unto her, For this saying go thy way; the devil is gone out of thy daughter.

Mk 7:30: And when she was come to her house, she found the devil gone out, and her daughter laid upon the bed.