Matthew Poole and continuators on Matthew 15:21

21 Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon.

Mark Ch. 7.24. addeth, and entred into an House, and would have no Man know of it, but he could not be hid: Some here make a Question, whether our Saviour did go into Phoenicia (of which Tyre and Sidon were the principal Cities) or only into the Coasts of Palestina next to it; those that think he did not go into Phoenicia, are guided by his Prohibition of his Disciples, to go into the way of the Gentiles, Mat. 10.5. and the Consideration, that the time was not yet come, for his manifestation to the Gentiles. I rather incline to think, that he went into Tyre and Sidon; and that this was a kind of a Praeludium to the calling of the Gentiles, and a Prediction of what should be done more fully afterwards: It is manifest he did not go with a design to make himself publick there, for Mark saith, he would have no Man know of it. But for privacy withdrew himself thither, and shewed some of his miraculous Operations there, and v. 22. Saith the Woman that came to him was a C[illegible: 1 letter] naanite, Mark saith, she was a Greek a Syrophenician by Nation. Nor is here any Contradiction, for ever since the Grecian Monarchy, prevailed over so great a part of the World. The Name of Greeks had obtained, so as they called all Greeks who were not Iews, Rom. 1.14.16. & 10.12. a Syrophenician saith Mark by Nation: That is, one that was a Native of that part of Phoenicia, which is joyned to Tyre and Sidon. Matthew calls her a Canaanite, or a Woman of Canaan, by which tho some would understand one of Cana, yet as the Orthography will not agree, so Mark calling her a Greek and a Syrophenician, inclines us rather to judge her of the stock of the Old Canaanites.