Title: When to Cry for Your Child
when you cry for your children
“Then a woman who had a young daughter possessed by an unclean spirit heard the news of Jesus and immediately came and fell at his feet, and she was a Greek and a Syrophonic woman, begging her to cast the demon out of her daughter. It is not right to take the children's bread and toss it to the dogs. The woman answered and said, "Surely, Lord, even the dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs." Jesus said to them, "Go back, because you have said this. The demon has gone out of your daughter." When the woman returned home, she found the child lying on the bed, and the demon went out” (Mark 7:25-30).
I. text commentary
The text records the amazing things that Jesus did in the region of Tire. It was a case of cleansing a young child possessed by an unclean spirit. At that time, the great power and miracles that Jesus performed and the work of revealing the disposition overflowing with God's mercy and compassion were known to many people. Perhaps Jesus was walking through the region of Tire with his disciples and a large crowd as usual.
II. woman kneeling on jesus
Then there was a woman who came to Jesus and hurriedly fell on his face. Mark gives details of this woman, who was a Greek and was a Syrophonic woman.
A. Hillline, Syroboniges woman
Jews and Greeks did not like each other. The Greeks dismissed the Jews as inferior to them in knowledge, and the Jews boasted that the Greeks could not follow them in miracles. Moreover, this woman was a Syrophonic woman. He was of Phoenician origin. The Phoenicians were a maritime people, and she lived far from her hometown. Although Jesus is the Son of God and the Savior of all things, he was a Jew by blood and blood. It was a strange thing for this Greek woman to bow down to Jesus Christ, a Jew. Of course there was a special reason for that. Because she had a daughter possessed by a demon.
B. Haunted Daughter
The demon-possessed daughter would not have been able to lead a normal life. And when we dare to see that the Bible is a “dirty” demon, we can see that the demon-possessed daughter's condition was serious as well as the spiritual ugliness of the demon. The heart of a mother looking at such a child must have melted. At that time, there were so-called ghost priests, and perhaps they also helped. You must have already used the slander from the private sector. However, the condition did not improve. In the midst of such despair, a woman, Syroboniges, who is her mother, comes to the Jew Jesus Christ to make a request. In other words, this woman had faith to pray.
C. Asking Faith
III. Compassion and parental supplication
The content of the petition is to remove a demon from his daughter.