16th after pentecost year b - mark

Special thanks this week to collaboration from River Needham and Remy!

Mark 7:24-37
²⁴Jesus set out
     and went away to the region of Tyre.
Jesus entered a house and did not want anyone to know he was there.
     Yet he could not escape notice,
          ²⁵but a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit
               immediately heard about him,
               and she came and bowed down at his feet.
                    ²⁶Now the woman was a Gentile,
                         of Syrophoenician origin.
               She begged Jesus to cast the demon out of her daughter.
²⁷Jesus said to her,
     “Let the children be fed first,
          for it is not fair to take the children’s food and throw it to the dogs.”  
²⁸But she answered him,
     “Sir, even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.”  
²⁹Then Jesus said to her,
     “For saying that,
          you may go—
               the demon has left your daughter.”
          ³⁰So she went home,
               found the child lying on the bed,
                    and the demon gone.

³¹Then Jesus returned from the region of Tyre,
     and went by way of Sidon towards the Sea of Galilee,
          in the region of the Decapolis.
     ³²They brought to him a deaf man
          who had an impediment in his speech;
     and they begged Jesus to lay his hand on him.
³³Jesus took him aside in private,
     away from the crowd,
     and put his fingers into his ears,
     and he spat and touched his tongue.
          ³⁴Then looking up to heaven,
               Jesus sighed and said to him,
                    “Ephphatha,”
                         that is, “Be opened.”
               ³⁵And immediately his ears were opened,
               his tongue was released,
               and he spoke plainly.  
³⁶Then Jesus ordered them to tell no one;
     but the more he ordered them,
          the more zealously they proclaimed it.
               ³⁷They were astounded beyond measure, saying,
                    “He has done everything well;
                         he even makes the deaf to hear and the mute to speak.”

Queeries for the text:
How do you escape notice *inside a house*??
Why does it matter that she was a Gentile?
Are there any lengths to which a parent won't go for their child?
What "children" is Jesus talking about?
What did Jesus just call her?!?!?!
How quick-witted do you have to be to come up with such a subversive comeback?
What impact did this woman have on Jesus?
Who is the they?  Family?  Community?  People who don't know how to open up their community to other ways of communicating?
How do we make a spectacle in inappropriate ways?
What did the man actually want? 
How do we need to be opened?
Are they outing Jesus without his consent?
What could possibly have been done "well" in calling this woman a dog?
What would society be like if people didn't have to be "healed" in order to be included?
What did the man say when he began to speak?

What are your queeries?