Mark 7:31–37 · BSB
7:31
Then Jesus left the region of Tyre and went through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee and into the region of the Decapolis.
7:32
Some people brought to Him a man who was deaf and hardly able to speak, and they begged Jesus to place His hand on him.
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7:33
So Jesus took him aside privately, away from the crowd, and put His fingers into the man’s ears. Then He spit and touched the man’s tongue.
7:34
And looking up to heaven, He sighed deeply and said to him, “Ephphatha!” (which means, “Be opened!”).
7:35
Immediately the man’s ears were opened and his tongue was released, and he began to speak plainly.
7:36
Jesus ordered them not to tell anyone. But the more He ordered them, the more widely they proclaimed it.
7:37
The people were utterly astonished and said, “He has done all things well! He makes even the deaf hear and the mute speak!”
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