Tyre and Sidon, major coastal cities still today in the nation of Lebanon, were plainly outside of Jewish territory, and the Syrophoenician or Canaanite woman is obviously a gentile. That’s the necessary background here.
Jesus tests her. And she passes with flying colors.
This foreshadows the eventual taking of the gospel to the gentile nations. But, despite this exception, the time was not yet.
Incidentally, the King James then came she and worshipped him of Matthew 15:25 would be better rendered in today’s English as but she came and knelt before him [ἡ δὲ ἐλθοῦσα προσεκύνει αὐτῷ].
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