Mateus 15

Jesus healed a non-Jewish woman’s daughter after testing the mother’s faith in him.

21 After Jesus took us and left Galilee district, we went into the region where the cities of Tyre and Sidon are located. 22 A woman from the group of people called Canaanites who live in that region came to the place where Jesus was staying. She kept shouting to him, "Lord, you are the descendant of King David, you are the Messiah! Have pity on me and my daughter! She is suffering very much because a demon controls her." 23 But Jesus did not answer her at all. We disciples came to him, and knowing that the woman was not a Jew, we said to him, "Tell her to leave, because she keeps bothering us by yelling behind us!" 24 But Jesus said to her, "I have been sent {God has sent me} to help only the Israelite people at this time [SYN]. They are like sheep that have gotten lost [MET] because they do not know the way to heaven." 25 But she came closer to Jesus and knelt down in front of him to worship him. She pled, "Lord/Sir, help me!" 26 Then, to suggest to her that he needed to help the Jews first and not the non-Jews, whom the Jews called dogs, he told her, "It is not good for someone to take food that has been prepared for the children and throw it to the little dogs." 27 But to show that she believed that non-Jews could also receive help from God, the woman said to Jesus, "Lord/Sir, what you say is correct, but even the little dogs eat the crumbs that fall to the floor when their masters sit at their tables and eat!" 28 Then Jesus said to her, "O woman, because you believe firmly in me, I will heal your daughter as you desire!" At that moment the demon left her daughter, and she became well.