<p>7:29<em> And he said to her: For this saying go your way. The demon is gone out of your daughter</em>- This shows the value which the Lord placed on correct understanding. The Gentile woman had seen the feeding of the 5,000 and <em>understood</em> the implications of the lesson which the Lord was teaching. We get the feeling that the Lord was <em>overjoyed</em> at her perception and therefore made an exception to His rule of not being sent at that time to the Gentiles, but to the house of Israel.&nbsp;</p><p>I think the extraordinary sensitivity of the Lord Jesus is reflected in the many examples of Him displaying extraordinary perception and precognition of what had happened or was going to happen. He had felt that Nathanael was sitting under a fig tree before they even met (Jn. 1:48); He knew the Syro-Phoenician woman&rsquo;s daughter had been cured; He knew the thoughts of men, etc. Now all this may have been due to the Father directly beaming that knowledge into Him through a Holy Spirit gift of knowledge. Maybe. And this was the explanation I assumed for many years. But I have noticed in myself and others that at times, we too have flashes of inexplicable precognition; we somehow know something&rsquo;s happened. I remember sitting next to a sister, and she suddenly came over looking distressed. She simply said: &ldquo;John B&rsquo;s mother has just died&rdquo;. And so indeed it was. I think we&rsquo;ve all had such things happen. And we share the same nature which the Lord had. So my restless mind wonders, and no more than that, whether His extraordinary precognition was not simply a result of a bolt of Holy Spirit knowledge, but rather an outflow of His extraordinary sensitivity to other people and their situations. This Lord is our Lord, the same today as He was back then yesterday. In any case, living as such a sensitive person in such a cruel and insensitive and blunt world would itself have been almost unbearable. And yet He was like that for us, the insensitive, the ignorant, the selfish and the uncaring, in so many moments of our lives.</p>