It’s another not so rare moment where Jesus interacts with someone outside of his countrymen. Jesus, the Rabbi, the Jew, the Messiah, the rightful King of the true kingdom leaves his own country of origin and enters the land of the final remnant of the Phoenician civilization and affirms the faith of a syrophonecian woman and her demon possessed daughter. A loaded situation. He crossed multiple barriers and essentially turned a dog into a woman. Jesus is the only one who can restore dignity where there is deep seated hatred and vehemence. Watch him enter into the chaos of the curse and turn it into a dazzling shimmer of hopefulness for a lost people.
