This time we find Jesus in a repartee with a Syrophoenician woman who was begging him to cure her daughter of an unclean spirit. Although Jesus begins apparently rebuffing her reaffirming his main purpose on earth was to save the chosen people of God. She did not make much of this. She just insisted in playing along in repartee with Jesus who was won over by her intelligent and creative replies. Our Lord granted her request and her daughter was healed. He appreciated women and was open and frank with them. He respected them for their obvious talents as women and encouraged them to the utmost of their potential.