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Mark - ch 7 v 21 - 37
- For from within, out of the heart of men, evil thoughts proceed, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries,
- covetings, wickednesses, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, railing, pride, foolishness:
- all these evil things proceed from within, and defile the man.
- And from thence he arose, and went away into the borders of Tyre and Sidon. And he entered into a house, and would have no man know it; and he could not be hid.
- But straightway a woman, whose little daughter had an unclean spirit, having heard of him, came and fell down at his feet.
- Now the woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by race. And she besought him that he would cast forth the demon out of her daughter.
- And he said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children's bread and cast it to the dogs.
- But she answered and saith unto him, Yea, Lord; even the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.
- And he said unto her, For this saying go thy way; the demon is gone out of thy daughter.
- And she went away unto her house, and found the child laid upon the bed, and the demon gone out.
- And again he went out from the borders of Tyre, and came through Sidon unto the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the borders of Decapolis.
- And they bring unto him one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his speech; and they beseech him to lay his hand upon him.
- And he took him aside from the multitude privately, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spat, and touched his tongue;
- and looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened.
- And his ears were opened, and the bond of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain.
- And he charged them that they should tell no man: but the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they published it.
- And they were beyond measure astonished, saying, He hath done all things well; he maketh even the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.
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