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AnswerIn this passage, the Greek woman asks Jesus to heal her daughter. At first Jesus says it is not fit to take the children's bread and cast it to the dogs. On the face of it, this is an offensively racist remark. Jesus was saying that his interest was in helping Jews, not those worthy to be considered dogs. When the Greek woman said that even the dogs must eat of the children's crumbs, she was humbly accepting Jesus' remark and placing herself at his mercy. Finally, Jesus told her that because she had said this, her daughter would be cured.

The question could be asked, whether the author of Mark's Gospel was reporting an actual event, or whether it was really an allegory intended to teach us something about Jesus. In verse 30, the author reports that the woman went home and found the daughter cured. Yet it is hard to imagine how any of the disciples could really have known whether this was so. This point to the passage not being about an actual event, and therefore perhaps an allegory. In this case, Jesus can not really be criticised for what he did not actually say or do.
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