He
entered into a house and would have no man know it. But He could not be
hid for a certain woman whose young daughter had an unclean spirit had
heard of Him. She found Him and came and fell at His feet. The woman
was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought Him to cast
forth the devil from her daughter.
But Jesus said to her, Let the children first be filled. It is not fit
to take the child's bread and cast it to the dogs. She answered, Yes,
Lord. Yet the dogs under the table eat the child's crumbs. Jesus then
said to her, For saying this, go thy way. The devil is gone from thy
daughter. When she returned home she found her daughter at rest upon
the bed and the devils cast out.
Upon leaving the coasts of Tyre and Sidon, He came to the sea of
Galilee through the midst of the coasts of Decapolis. Here they brought
a man that was deaf and had a speech impediment. They besought Him to
put His hand upon him. Jesus took the man apart from the multitude and
put His fingers into the man's ears. Looking up to heaven, He sighed
and said, Ephphatha, Be opened.
Immediately the man's ears were opened. His tongue was loosed and he
spoke plain. Then Jesus charged those present to tell no man. However,
the more He charged them, the more they published it saying, He has
done all things well. He makes the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.
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