Contradictions and Paradoxes in Mark 7:25

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Mark 7:25 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Mark 7:25. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to Mark, the woman who was not a Jew asked Jesus for help because her daughter was very sick. She believed Jesus could make her daughter better and wanted Him to chase away the bad spirit.

Mark 7:25: The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter. [Greek: or, Gentile]

Contradiction with Matthew 15:24

States that Jesus was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel, contradicting Mark 7:25 where a Gentile woman approaches Jesus for help.

Matthew 15:24: But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

Contradiction with Matthew 10:5-6

Instructs disciples not to go to Gentiles, opposing the interaction with a Gentile woman in Mark 7:25.

Matthew 10:5-6: These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into [any] city of the Samaritans enter ye not:

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