why did Jesus call a woman a dog?

Question

*i'm a Christian, but i'm just trying to understand this*

there's verse( i forgot, SRY!) but it's very popular, where Jesus calls a woman in need, a dog. he did not know this wmoan whatsoever, so he had no right to call some random person a dog. he saw many random people everyday, and he chose HER out of all of them...WTF?!


and why does he flip over those guy's table, where they were selling sacrifices? SO WHAT if they were SELLING the sacrifice, instead of killing it! you might say "well it was Jesus's house, becuase he's God's son" ...well... in the What WE call "MORTAL" world, you don't get to choose if you wanna be God's son.
for all THEY knew, Jesus was just some random average guy who was walking passed.
isn't that called "VANDALISM"? it was THEIR property! no one "CONFIRMED" that Jesus was God's son during those times...

sry i'm talking LOUD, but i had a really bad day, and i just wanted to understand this. THANX!

Answer 1

The woman was a non-Jew...probably a Samaritan. There was some rivalry between the Jews and the Samaritans--Jesus was speaking in what was common for the Jews and Samaritans in those days. He was testing her faith, and she persevered to the end of the conversation and was blessed by Christs love for her. She knew that God loves all people.
The fact that the people were profaning the temple by selling, and even cheating the people was enough. The temple, by law, was supposed to be a holy place. The people were doing evil in God's house. The priests and leaders were taking kickbacks. Christ gave them a wakeup call. All the buying and selling should have been done outside of the temple grounds.

Answer 2

We should look at our context first. We are in the center of what is often called “the Bread Section” of Mark’s Gospel. In this section, there are the two feeding miracles — of the five thousand in 6:30–44 and of the four thousand in 8:1–10. So what does Jesus mean when he speaks to the woman? First, we need to consider what tone of voice he uses. Is it a harsh rebuttal? Or is it said with a smile?

Now Jews used to call Gentiles “dogs.” It was a derogatory term, perhaps because the dog was considered an unclean animal to which unclean meat could be thrown (Exod 22:31). So, in Jewish terms, Jesus uses a word that means a Gentile, or one who is supposedly inferior, after she has fallen at his feet (she will call him ‘Sir’). But Jesus softens the usual Jewish term to “puppies.”

The woman immediately understands what he is saying: “Sir, even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs." She is very glad to pick up anything that has fallen from the table of the “children.” The children that she alludes to, of course, are the “children of Israel” (cf. Isa 17:3, 9). After all, the Jewish response to Jesus’ feeding and other miracles has been poor.

Here we remember how the Gospel was spread historically: to the Jews first, and then to the Gentiles. It is almost a slogan for Paul (Romans 1:16; 2:9, 10). It will be the Gentiles who will warmly welcome the Gospel. There will be a great amount of food that will ‘fall off the table’ of the children of Israel and will be gladly taken by the ’dogs,’ and the astute woman is delighted with the offer. After all, there were plenty of leftovers when Jesus did the feeding at both meals!

The woman is blessed by receiving this ‘food’ from Jesus, and goes home to find her daughter well. Only now are we told that she was a rich woman, as her daughter was lying on a klinen, the bed of a wealthy person. The ‘rich’ Gentile comes begging to a Jew for scraps and receives the good news about Jesus — food from heaven indeed.

So the dog reference was a joke really and Mark’s original readers would have thought of Jesus and the woman having a good laugh. But those Roman readers would have been laughing too. After all, in breaking boundaries and including all the Gentiles in God’s plan of salvation, Jesus had gone to the dogs!

Answer 3

He was testing her, and she passed, she had faith. As far as selling in the temple, the people had turned it into something to make money instead of a place of worship.

Answer 4

They used cheating scales. Charging out landish prices

Answer 5

She wasn't Jewish, but because she took no offense and persisted, she was rewarded.

Answer 6

as far as im concerned God can do whatever he want's who's going to stop him