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The Syrophoenician woman.

          “Yes, 
                 Lord. 
                        Yet 
                             even the dogs 
                                     under the table eat the children's crumbs.”
                                                                                                          Mark 7:28

The Syrophoenician woman.

Most people remember the conversation because of the dogs.

I remember it because her worth was never the question.

Jesus was not deciding whether she belonged among God’s people. He was revealing a faith that understood something many of us still struggle to believe. She came with no claim, no argument, no demand. She simply trusted that His mercy was greater than her circumstance.

“Yes, Lord. Yet even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.”

She wasn’t asking to be made worthy.

She already knew she wasn’t.

She was asking for mercy.

And mercy was exactly what she found.

Painting Information

Title: The Syrophoenician Woman

Subtitle: Her Worth Was Never the Question.

Medium: Oil on canvas

Completed: Febuary to June 2026

Location: Jerusalem Hills, Israel

Collection: Jerusalem Field Notes

Scripture Inspiration: Mark 7:24–30; Matthew 15:21–28

Artist: Elizabeth Finch

Embedded Scriptures: Several passages are hidden throughout the painting, inviting the viewer to slow down and discover them over time.

“Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin... But if God so clothes the grass of the field... will He not much more clothe you?”

Matthew 6:28–30

There is a field note that goes with this painting. click the link to read it:

The Story Behind the Painting

Availability

This original painting is not for sale.

It is part of the Jerusalem Field Notes collection, a body of work created to support the ongoing ministry of Jerusalem Light in Jerusalem.

           Time passed through them both,
                  like seasons through a field.

The first day:

Painting Details

1Title: The Company of Time

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 36 x 48”

Year: Feb- June 2026

Fair market value: $6,480

Artist’s Note:

While painting, I couldn’t stop thinking about the years between the son’s leaving and his return.

Scripture only gives us a few verses.

I imagined time keeping company with them both.

         It sat beside the father.
                 And walked beside the son.

We are told he squandered everything.

Then:

“He came to himself.”

That sentence probably represents many months.

There were hundreds of mornings and evenings before they met at this moment where the father ran to embrace his son.

Embedded Scripture

Throughout the painting are fragments of Scripture layered beneath the paint.

Some are obviously visible.

Others are mostly lost beneath months of brushstrokes.

Among the passages are Psalm 51, David’s prayer of repentance, and others that are woven into the son’s clothing.