Mark 7:24-37

A Gentile Woman’s Faith

24 ^aNow Jesus stood up and went away from there to the region of ^bTyre¹. And when He had entered a house, He was wanting no one to know of it; ²yet He could not escape notice. 25 But after hearing of Him, a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit immediately came and fell at His feet. 26 Now the woman was a ¹Greek, of Syrophoenician descent. And she kept asking Him to cast the demon out of her daughter. 27 And He was saying to her, “Let the children be satisfied first, for it is not ¹good to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.” 28 But she answered and *said to Him, “Yes, Lord, but even the dogs under the table feed on the children’s crumbs.” 29 And He said to her, “Because of this ¹answer go; the demon has gone out of your daughter.” 30 And going back to her home, she found the child ¹lying on the bed, the demon having left.

The Deaf Hear, the Mute Speak

31 ^aAnd again He went out from the region of ^bTyre, and came through Sidon to ^cthe Sea of Galilee, within the region of the ^dDecapolis. 32 And they *brought to Him one who was deaf and spoke with difficulty, and they *pleaded with Him to ^alay His hand on him. 33 ^aAnd Jesus took him aside from the crowd, by himself, and put His fingers into his ears, and after ^aspitting, He touched his tongue; 34 and looking up to heaven with a ^asigh, He *said to him, “Ephphatha!” that is, “Be opened!” 35 And his ears were opened, and the ¹impediment of his tongue ²was removed, and he began speaking plainly. 36 And ^aHe gave them orders not to tell anyone; but the more He was ordering them, the more widely they ^bcontinued to proclaim it. 37 And they were utterly astonished, saying, “He has done all things well; He makes even the deaf to hear and the mute to speak.”

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