There's plenty of stories in the Bible that are confusing or unusual enough to make us ask, "Why would they put this in there?!" As a listener request, I tackled the story of Jesus and the SyroPhoenician Woman. A non-Jewish woman relentlessly pursues Jesus for a healing and ends up changing the course of history.

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References in the show:

The story in Mark's Gospel

The story in Matthew's Gospel

"Jesus and the Performance of Wokeness" - an episode of The Word Is Resistance

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