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John Gill
And he said unto her, for this saying,.... Or word of faith; in which she expressed such great faith in him: the Persic version reads it, "go thy way; for with the blessing of this word, the devil is gone out of thy daughter": as if this saying referred to the word Christ, and the divine power that went along with it, to the ejection of the devil; when it refers to the saying of the woman, and...
Matthew Henry
In this chapter we have, I. Christ's dispute with the scribes and Pharisees about eating meat with unwashen hands (ver. 1-13); and the needful instructions he gave to the people on that occasion, and further explained to his disciples, ver. 14-23. II. His curing of the woman Canaan's daughter that was possessed, ver. 24-30. III. The relief of a man that was deaf, and had an impediment in his...
Charles H. Spurgeon
And from thence he arose, and went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and entered into an house, and would have no man know it: but he could not be hid. For a certain woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet: the woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter. But...