Deliverance for the captives
Q: Why did Jesus call the mother of the demon possessed girl “a dog”? It seems quite arrogant and rude.
A: In Matthew 15:21-28 we read of Jesus appearing to cold-shoulder the desperate Canaanite mother with a demon possessed daughter.
To understand the significance of this episode we must keep in mind that Christ’s initial ministry was to the Jews.
She was a foreigner, not a Jew, and so the disciples viewed her as a pest, an irritation, who ought to have known better than to “bother the Jewish Man of God”.
Regardless, the alien mother shouted out to Jesus:
Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil.