When Christ told the woman of Canaan that it wasn’t right to give the children’s food to the dogs it sounds like a real insult to us but I wonder if it held such a negative connotation in that day. Her answer didn’t seem to indicate any offense taken.
What really interests me about this story is the contrast with the story of the Roman centurion who Jesus immediately responded favorably to even though he was obviously not one of the children of Israel either.
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