Jesus Bested by a Woman! The Story of the Syro-Phoenician Woman

There is a very unusual story in the Gospel of Mark (Mark 7:24-30) picked up by, and amplified in, the Gospel of Matthew (Mat 15:21-28). It concerns a desperate woman requesting an exorcism from Jesus. Now that doesn't sound so unusual. People, both men and women, requested healings and exorcisms from Jesus seemingly on a …

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The Underappreciated Story of the Samaritan Woman

There are precious few stories in the gospels in which Jesus converses with women. Even fewer are those that grant the woman conversant a voice. Among the latter examples are the conversations between Jesus and the sisters Mary and Martha (Luke 10:38-42; John 11:21-27, 32). The conversation we are interested in today is the one …

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