But Jesus treats her differently. When the Canaanite woman utters her request for her ailing daughter, he looks intently at her eyes. Though he is about to have dinner and to take rest after a mission of mercy, his heart pitied her. True to her feeling and concern for her child, this Canaanite woman comes out of the blue and has a petition ready to be offered to Jesus: recovery and healing not for herself but for her daughter. Given the chance, she persists without having thought of any apprehension or discouragement should Jesus not give her his attention.