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Ewangelia Mateusza 15:25

Lecz ona przystąpiwszy, pokłoniła mu się, mówiąc: Panie, ratuj mię!

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Demons;   Faith;   Jesus, the Christ;   Jesus Continued;   Miracles;   Prayer;   Sidon;   Syro-Phoenician;   Tyre;   Thompson Chain Reference - Awe;   Crying to Jesus;   Delayed Blessings;   Reverence;   Reverence-Irreverence;   Reverenced, Christ;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Miracles of Christ, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Miracle;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Women;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Demon;   Jesus Christ;   Sexuality, Human;   Woman;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Hutchinsonians;   Pharisees;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Exorcism;   Jesus, Life and Ministry of;   Matthew, the Gospel of;   Mission(s);   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Lazarus;   Mss;   Text of the New Testament;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Almsgiving ;   Consciousness;   Cures;   Individuality;   Law;   Lazarus;   Lunatic;   Manuscripts;   Matthew, Gospel According to;   Mental Characteristics;   Possession;   Proverbs ;   Religious Experience;   Reverence;   Temptation;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Miracles;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Tradition;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Chief parables and miracles in the bible;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Jesus of Nazareth;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Adoration;   Help;   Jesus Christ (Part 2 of 2);   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Jesus of Nazareth;   New Testament;  

Parallel Translations

Biblia Gdańska (1632)
Lecz ona przystąpiwszy, pokłoniła mu się, mówiąc: Panie, ratuj mię!
Biblia Przekład Toruński
25 Lecz ona podeszła i oddała Mu pokłon, mówiąc: Panie, pomóż mi!
Nowe Przymierze Zaremba
Lecz kobieta podeszła, pokłoniła Mu się i poprosiła: Panie, pomóż mi!
Nowa Biblia Gdańska (2012)
Zaś ona podeszła i oddała mu pokłon, mówiąc: Panie, ratuj mnie.
Uwspółcześniona Biblia Gdańska
Lecz ona podeszła i oddała mu pokłon, mówiąc: Panie, pomóż mi!
Biblia Brzeska (1563)
Ale ona przyszedszy, dała mu chwałę mówiąc: Panie, pomóż mi!
Biblia Warszawska
Lecz ona przyszła, złożyła mu pokłon i rzekła: Panie, pomóż mi!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

came: Matthew 20:31, Genesis 32:26, Hosea 12:4, Luke 11:8-10, Luke 18:1-8

worshipped: Matthew 14:33

Lord: Mark 9:22, Mark 9:24

Reciprocal: Matthew 8:2 - worshipped Matthew 9:18 - worshipped Matthew 20:20 - worshipping Ephesians 6:18 - all perseverance

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then came she and worshipped him,.... She followed the disciples into the house; and perceiving another repulse by Christ's answer to them, she pushes on, through all discouragements; her faith grows stronger, and her importunity greater: she had called Christ Lord, and the son of David before, but now she worships him as God:

Saying, Lord help me; a short petition, but what fully and fitly expressed her case: the object she prays unto is the Lord, by which she owns his sovereignty, dominion, and power: the request she makes is for "help", signifying that her case required it; that it was such, that she could not help herself, nor any creature help her, only he, which she firmly believed; and though it was her daughter, and not she herself, that was so miserably afflicted; yet such was her sympathy, love, and affection to her, that she makes the case her own, and calls helping her daughter, helping herself; for her daughter being relieved, she would be made easy.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This narrative is also found in Mark 7:24-30.

The coasts of Tyre and Sidon - These cities were on the seacoast or shore of the Mediterranean. See the notes at Matthew 11:21. Jesus went there for the purpose of concealment Mark 7:24, perhaps still to avoid Herod.

Matthew 15:22

A woman of Canaan - This woman is called, also, a Greek, a Syro-Phoenician by birth, Mark 7:26

In ancient times, the whole land, including Tyre and Sidon, was in the possession of the Canaanites, and called Canaan. The Phoenicians were descended from the Canaanites. The country, including Tyre and Sidon, was called Phoenicia, or Syro-Phoenicia. That country was taken by the Greeks under Alexander the Great, and those cities, in the time of Christ, were Greek cities. This woman was therefore a Gentile, living under the Greek government, and probably speaking the Greek language. She was by birth a Syro-Phoenician, born in that country, and descended, therefore, from the ancient Canaanites. All these names might, with propriety, be given to her.

Coasts - Regions or countries.

Thou son of David - Descendant of David. See the notes at Matthew 1:1. The phrase here means the Messiah.

Is grievously vexed with a devil - See the notes at Matthew 4:24. The woman showed great earnestness. She cried unto him, and fell at his feet, Mark 7:25.

Matthew 15:23

But he answered her not a word - This was done to test her faith, and that there might be exhibited to the apostles an example of the effect of persevering supplication.

The result shows that it was not unwillingness to aid her, or neglect of her. It was proper that the strength of her faith should be fully tried.

Matthew 15:24

But he answered and said, I am not sent ... - This answer was made to the woman, not to the disciples.

The “lost sheep of the house of Israel” were the Jews. He came first to them. He came as their expected Messiah. He came to preach the gospel himself to the Jews only. Afterward it was preached to the Gentiles, but the ministry of Jesus was confined almost entirely to the Jews.

Matthew 15:25

She came and worshipped - That is, bowed down to him or did him reverence.

See the notes at Matthew 8:2.

Lord, help me! - A proper cry for a poor sinner, who needs the help of the Lord Jesus.

Matthew 15:26

But he answered and said, It is not meet ... - That is, it is not appropriate or proper.

Children’s bread - The Jews considered themselves as the special children of God.

To all other nations they were accustomed to apply terms of contempt, of which dogs was the most common. The Muslims still apply the term “dogs” to Christians, and Christians and Jews to each other. The term is designed as an expression of the highest contempt. The Saviour means to say that he was sent to the Jews. The woman was a Gentile. He meant merely using a term in common use, and designed to test her faith in the strongest manner - that it did not comport with the design of his personal ministry to apply benefits intended for the Jews to others. Evidently he cannot be understood as intending to justify or sanction the use of such terms, or calling names. He meant to try her faith. As if he had said, “You are a Gentile; I am a Jew. The Jews call themselves children of God. You they vilify and abuse, calling you a dog. Are you willing to receive of a Jew, then, a favor? Are you willing to submit to these appellations to receive a favor of one of that nation, and to acknowledge your dependence on a people that so despise you?” It was, therefore, a trial of her faith, and was not a lending of his sanction to the propriety of the abusive term. He regarded her with a different feeling.

Matthew 15:27

And she said, Truth, Lord ... - What you say is true.

Let it be that the best food should be given to the children - let the Jews have the chief benefit of thy ministry; but the dogs beneath the table eat the crumbs. So let me be regarded as a dog, a pagan, as unworthy of everything. Yet grant one exertion of that almighty power displayed so signally among the Jews, and heal the despised daughter of a despised heathen mother.”

Matthew 15:28

Great is thy faith - That is, thy trust, confidence.

The word here seems to include, also, the humility and perseverance manifested in pressing her suit. The daughter was healed then. Going home, she found her well and composed, Mark 7:30.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Matthew 15:25. Lord, help me. — Let me also share in the deliverance afforded to Israel.


 
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