Well, yes. No politically correct figure, he. But he also heals her daughter, thereby extending his beneficence to a gentile, which could be seen as prefiguring just the sort of thing Wright suggests is found only in the other Gospels. Do these people think they are the only ones familiar with these texts?
"In Mark ... Jesus’ most salient comment on ethnic relations is to compare a woman to a dog because she isn’t from Israel."
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