Mark 7:31-37

Then he returned from the region of Tyre and went through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, in the region of the Decapolis. And they brought to him a man who was deaf and had a speech impediment, and they begged him to lay his hand on him. And taking him aside from the crowd privately, he put his fingers into his ears, and after spitting touched his tongue. And looking up to heaven, he sighed and said to him “Ephphatha”, that is, “Be opened.” And his ears were opened, his tongue was released, and he spoke plainly. And Jesus charged them to tell no one. But the more he charged them, the more zealously they proclaimed it. And they were astonished beyond measure, saying, “He has done all things well. He even makes the deaf hear and the mute speak.” 

The man had friends with faith; otherwise he was cut off in life from all communication with others.

For the deaf man to understand him, Yeshu mimes how he is going to heal both ear and tongue. And after a silent prayer, with just one word of command spoken in the common people’s language, he brings instant healing. It was a day in which goodness of life was restored to one sufferer.

Mark 7:24-30

And from there he arose and went away to the region of Tyre and Sidon. And he entered a house and did not want anyone to know, yet he could not be hidden. But immediately a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit heard of him and came and fell down at his feet. Now the woman was a Gentile, a Syrophoenician by birth. And she begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter. And he said to her, “Let the children be fed first, for it is not right to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.” But she answered him, “Yes, Lord; yet even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.” And he said to her, ” For this statement you may go your way; the demon has left your daughter.” And she went home and found the child lying in bed and the demon gone.

Jews referred to non-Jews as dogs; i.e. in a way similar to the term ‘outsiders’  ( phyi-pa ). So Yeshu is testing her, and is impressed by her childlike and humorous faith.

People of any race who come to Yeshu with such assurance of his goodness will certainly find his help. They are not outsiders to him.