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Originally Posted by DividedThigh
Jesus obviously understood the culture he lived in and was i believe testing her to see if she could get past the bigotry herself, and of course we know she responded with faith and he rewarded her, he was not trying to belittle her, society in this case jewish society had allready done that, but she rose to her level of need and touched him, dt 
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Good points.
Could it have been an attitude check? It probably happened for the same reason Naaman the Leper, in 2KINGS 5, had to go dunk in the Jordan seven times.