Whose little daughter (hēs to thugatrion autēs). Diminutive with tender touch. Note “whose” and “her” like vernacular today.
Having heard of him (akousasa peri autou). Even in this heathen territory the fame of Jesus was known. When the Sermon on the Mount was preached people were there from “the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon” (Luk 6:17).