<p>15:28&nbsp;<em>Then Jesus answered</em>- This has been said in :23,25 and :26. His responsiveness to human words, actions and perceptions was clearly very impressive to Matthew. And this Lord is our Lord.</p>
<p><em>O woman, great is your faith-&nbsp;</em>The Lord commended the Canaanite woman for her understanding of the Hope of Israel and the Gentile's place in it: &quot;Great is your faith&quot; (Mt. 15:28); great was her understanding, and therefore her faith. Mark records that the Lord also said: &ldquo;For this saying go your way; the demon is gone out of your daughter&quot; (Mk. 7:29). This shows the value which the Lord placed on correct understanding. The Gentile woman had seen the feeding of the 5,000 and&nbsp;<em>understood</em>&nbsp;the implications of the lesson which the Lord was teaching. We get the feeling that the Lord was&nbsp;<em>overjoyed</em>&nbsp;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><em>Be it done to you even as you wish. And her daughter was healed from that moment</em>- It was done unto her daughter, for her sake- an example of a third party being healed&nbsp;or blessed by the Lord in response to the faith of another person (see Mk. 2:5 for another example- the paralyzed man was cured for the sake of the faith of his friends). This sets a challenging precedent for us in our prayers for others. John seems to consciously allude to the Lord's words here when recording how the Lord stated a general principle, that if His words abide in us &quot;You shall ask what you will, and it shall be done unto you&quot; (Jn. 15:7; see too Mt. 18:19). The Lord was setting up that woman as the role model of all who would believe in Him. His words abode in her- see comment on&nbsp;<em>from that very hour</em>. Mark adds: &ldquo;The demon is gone out of your daughter&rdquo;. The Lord Jesus used well known medical techniques in His ministry (Mk. 7:33; Jn. 9:6); not because He needed to use them, but in order to somehow get His hearers at ease. And so, it seems to me, He used the language of demons. He dealt with people in terms which they would be able to accept.</p>
<p>We get the impression that the woman didn't have her daughter with her. She had to go home believing in the Lord's words, and according to that faith it was given to her.</p>