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Like the woman of Samaria the mother from Canaan whose story
Matthew and Mark have preserved for us was a foreigner. Tradition
calls her Justa and names her daughter Bernice. One scholar
describes her as "by language a Greek, by nationality a
Canaanite, and by residence a Syro-Phoenician." So, too, she was
probably Greek by religion. Coming from the Phoenician coast as
she did she was very likely a member of a seafaring family.

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