(Matthew 15.21-28) – 16 August 2020
Neil Millar
If you’re like me, you’re both delighted and perplexed by this story. Delighted by this Canaanite woman’s faithful insistence and what it achieves for her daughter. And perplexed by the way Jesus speaks to her, at least initially; by his apparent disrespect and rudeness, which seems so out of character. A few verses earlier he’d cautioned: ‘It’s what comes out of the mouth that defiles the person’ (11), and then he says this! Was it a slip-up, a momentary loss of composure? Was he just having a bad day, or is there more going on here?
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