NEW TESTAMENT

Mark 7:25

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For a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit, having heard of him, came and fell down at his feet.

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Verse 25. This part, in which Saint Mark says that Christ was in the house, when the woman came to petition in behalf of her daughter, seems to differ from the narration of Saint Matthew, who says that the disciples besought Christ to dismiss her, because she cried after them; by which he signifies, that she followed them as they were on the road. These apparent differences may thus easily be reconciled. The woman came to our Lord when he was in the house, and he, according to Saint Matthew, not answering her a word, went out during the silence: the woman followed after, and by her perseverance obtained her request. Saint Augustine.

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