But immediately a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit heard of him and came and fell down at his feet.
See here, I. How humbly Christ was pleased to conceal himself. Never man was so cried up as he was in Galilee, and therefore, to teach us, though not to decline any opportunity of doing good, yet not to be fond of popular applause, he arose from thence, and went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon, where he was little known; and there he...
Commenting on Mark 7:24-30
The woman was a Greek,.... Or Gentile, an Heathen woman, which made her faith the more remarkable. So the Syriac, Persic, and Ethiopic versions call her; which she might be, and was, though she was a woman of Canaan, as she is said to be in Mat 15:22, for though the land of Israel in general, was called the land of Canaan, yet there was...
A certain woman - See this account of the Syrophoenician woman explained at large, Mat 15:21-28 (note).