In this amazing passage of two miracles, we find just one message. The first miracle is the healing of the daughter of a Greek woman, born in Syrian Phoenicia. In many ways, it is among the most significant of Jesus' miracles not just because the child received healing. Syrophoenicia is not a candidate region for the zip code 90210. The "pretty people" do not take up residence there. In fact, they do all they can to avoid going that way. It is a remote place sustained by commercial fishing and, if we can imagine, all the attendant odors are present every day. It is not far from the sea but it is not a vacation destination by any means. This woman whose daughter Jesus healed is described as "a Greek, born in Syrian Phoenicia" (v. 26). The area where she lives is called Syrophoenicia to dist…