Matthew 15:21 meaning and explanation
Leaving that place, Jesus withdrew to the district of Tyre and Sidon.
Matthew 15:21, Berean Standard Bible
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After the confrontation with the Pharisees over tradition, Jesus leaves Galilee and withdraws to the district of Tyre and Sidon, Gentile territory on the Phoenician coast. Matthew presents this as a deliberate departure from the controversy, and the verses that follow show a Canaanite woman approaching him there.
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