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The exorcism of the Syrophoenician woman's daughter is one of the miracles of Jesus and is recounted in the Gospel of Mark in chapter 7 (Mark 7:24–30) [1] and in the Gospel of Matthew in chapter 15 (Matthew 15:21–28). [2] In Matthew, the story is recounted as the healing of a Canaanite woman's daughter. [3]
The Phoenicians and Chanaanites were the same people, but were called Chanaanites, by the Hebrews, and Phoenicians, by the Greeks. The woman called a "Syro-Phoenician", (Mark 7:26) since she came from the part of Phoenicia that was part of Syria. "Have mercy on me" shows that the woman full bore the affliction of her daughter.
The Phoenicians were an ancient Semitic group of people who lived in the Phoenician city-states along a coastal strip in the Levant region of the eastern Mediterranean, primarily modern Lebanon. [5] They developed a maritime civilization which expanded and contracted throughout history, with the core of their culture stretching from Arwad in ...
Jezebel is introduced into the biblical narrative as a Phoenician princess, the daughter of Ithobaal I, king of Tyre (1 Kings 16:31 says she was "Sidonian", which is a biblical term for Phoenicians in general). [12] According to genealogies given in Josephus and other classical sources, she was the great-aunt of Dido, Queen of Carthage. [12]
Herodotus believed that the Phoenicians originated from Bahrain, [16] [17] a view shared centuries later by the historian Strabo. [18] This theory was accepted by the 19th-century German classicist Arnold Heeren, who noted that Greek geographers described "two islands, named Tyrus or Tylos, and Aradus, which boasted that they were the mother country of the Phoenicians, and exhibited relics of ...
Turns out an immaculate conception kinda freaked people out. The most famous Mary of all time (with all due respect to Wilson, J. Blige, and Tyler Moore) is getting her own Biblical coming-of-age ...
The Jesus bloodline refers to the proposition that a lineal sequence of the historical Jesus has persisted, possibly to the present time. Although absent from the Gospels or historical records, the concept of Jesus having descendants has gained a presence in the public imagination, as seen with Dan Brown's 2003 best-selling novel The Da Vinci Code and its 2006 movie adaptation of the same name ...
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