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Mark - ch 7 v 21 - 37
- For from within, out of the heart of men, go forth evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
- thefts, covetousness, wickednesses, deceit, licentiousness, a wicked eye, injurious language, haughtiness, folly;
- all these wicked things go forth from within and defile the man.
- And he rose up and went away thence into the borders of Tyre and Sidon; and having entered into a house he would not have any one know it, and he could not be hid.
- But immediately a woman, whose little daughter had an unclean spirit, having heard of him, came and fell at his feet
- (and the woman was a Greek, Syrophenician by race), and asked him that he would cast the demon out of her daughter.
- But Jesus said to her, Suffer the children to be first filled; for it is not right to take the children's bread and cast it to the dogs.
- But she answered and says to him, Yea, Lord; for even the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.
- And he said to her, Because of this word, go thy way, the demon is gone out of thy daughter.
- And having gone away to her house she found the demon gone out, and her daughter lying on the bed.
- And again having left the borders of Tyre and Sidon, he came to the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the coasts of Decapolis.
- And they bring to him a deaf man who could not speak right, and they beseech him that he might lay his hand on him.
- And having taken him away from the crowd apart, he put his fingers to his ears; and having spit, he touched his tongue;
- and looking up to heaven he groaned, and says to him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened.
- And immediately his ears were opened, and the band of his tongue was loosed and he spoke right.
- And he charged them that they should speak to no one of it. But so much the more he charged them, so much the more abundantly they proclaimed it;
- and they were astonished above measure, saying, He does all things well; he makes both the deaf to hear, and the speechless to speak.
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