Mark 7:29-37 ▼

29 Then he told her, “Because of this reply, you may go. The demon has left your daughter.”

30 When she went back to her home, she found her child lying on the bed, and the demon was gone.

31 Again, leaving the region of Tyre, he went by way of Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, through the region of the Decapolis.

32 They brought to him a deaf man who had difficulty speaking and begged Jesus to lay his hand on him.

33 So he took him away from the crowd in private. After putting his fingers in the man’s ears and spitting, he touched his tongue.

34 Looking up to heaven, he sighed deeply and said to him, “Ephphatha! ” (that is, “Be opened! ” ).

35 Immediately his ears were opened, his tongue was loosened, and he began to speak clearly.

36 He ordered them to tell no one, but the more he ordered them, the more they proclaimed it.

37 They were extremely astonished and said, “He has done everything well. He even makes the deaf hear and the mute speak.”