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Mark - ch 7 v 21 - 37
- For from within out of the heart of men proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
- Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness.
- All these evil things come from within, and defile a man.
- And rising from thence he went into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon: and entering into a house, he would that no man should know it, and he could not be hid.
- For a woman as soon as she heard of him, whose daughter had an unclean spirit, came in and fell down at his feet.
- For the woman was a Gentile, a Syrophenician born. And she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter.
- Who said to her: Suffer first the children to be filled: for it is not good to take the bread of the children, and cast it to the dogs.
- But she answered and said to him: Yea, Lord; for the whelps also eat under the table of the crumbs of the children.
- And he said to her: For this saying go thy way, the devil is gone out of thy daughter.
- And when she was come into her house, she found the girl lying upon the bed, and that the devil was gone out.
- And again going out of the coasts of Tyre, he came by Sidon to the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the coasts of Decapolis.
- And they bring to him one deaf and dumb; and they besought him that he would lay his hand upon him.
- And taking him from the multitude apart, he put his fingers into his ears, and spitting, he touched his tongue:
- And looking up to heaven, he groaned, and said to him: Ephpheta, which is, Be thou opened.
- And immediately his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spoke right.
- And he charged them that they should tell no man. But the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal did they publish it.
- And so much the more did they wonder, saying: He hath done all things well; he hath made both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.
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