Then he said to her, "For saying that, you may go--the demon has left your daughter."
And when she went home, she found the child lying on the bed and the demon gone.
Mark 7:29-30
And when she went home, she found the child lying on the bed and the demon gone.
Mark 7:29-30
The Canaanite Woman asks for healing for her daughter
Notes: Naskh is the caligraphic style for writing in the Arabic alphabet that the biblical text is written in for this manuscript. The artist, Ilyas Basim Khuri Bazzi Rahib, was most likely a Coptic monk in the late 17th century in Egypt.
Bazzi Rahib, Ilyas Basim Khuri. The Canaanite Woman asks for healing for her daughter, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=59379 [retrieved September 7, 2024]. Original source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ilyas_Basim_Khuri_Bazzi_Rahib_-_Jesus_and_the_Canaanite_Woman_-_Walters_W59243A_-_Full_Page.jpg.
O God, Wisdom of the universe,
you bear the pain of your people.
Grant us the gift of wisdom,
that we may discern your way
and live justly and graciously
amid the struggles of this world. Amen.
Reproduced from Revised Common Lectionary Prayers, copyright © 2002 Consultation on Common Texts, Augsburg Fortress. Used by permission.
you bear the pain of your people.
Grant us the gift of wisdom,
that we may discern your way
and live justly and graciously
amid the struggles of this world. Amen.
Reproduced from Revised Common Lectionary Prayers, copyright © 2002 Consultation on Common Texts, Augsburg Fortress. Used by permission.