Mark 7:24-37 ▼

24 And from there having risen, He went away to the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and having entered into the house, He wished none to know, and He was not able to be hid,

25 for a woman having heard about Him, whose little daughter had an unclean spirit, having come, fell at His feet—

26 and the woman was a Greek, a Syro-Phoenician by nation—and was asking Him that He may cast forth the demon out of her daughter.

27 And Jesus said to her, “First permit the children to be filled, for it is not good to take the children’s bread, and to cast [it] to the little dogs.”

28 And she answered and says to Him, “Yes, Lord; for the little dogs under the table also eat of the children’s crumbs.”

29 And He said to her, “Because of this word, go; the demon has gone forth out of your daughter”;

30 and having come away to her house, she found the demon gone forth, and the daughter laid on the bed.

31 And again, having gone forth from the coasts of Tyre and Sidon, He came to the Sea of Galilee, through the midst of the coasts of Decapolis,

32 and they bring to Him a deaf, stuttering man, and they call on Him that He may put the hand on him.

33 And having taken him away from the multitude by Himself, He put His fingers to his ears, and having spit, He touched his tongue,

34 and having looked to the sky, He sighed, and says to him, “Ephphatha,” that is, “Be opened”;

35 and immediately his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he was speaking plain.

36 He charged them that they may tell no one, but the more He was charging them, the more abundantly they were proclaiming [it],

37 and they were being astonished beyond measure, saying, “He has done all things well; He makes both the deaf to hear, and the mute to speak.”