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Mark - ch 7 v 21 - 37
- For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,
- covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.
- All these evil things come from within, and defile the man."
- From there he arose, and went away into the borders of Tyre and Sidon. He entered into a house, and didn't want anyone to know it, but he couldn't escape notice.
- For 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. She begged him that he would cast the demon out of her daughter.
- But Jesus said to her, "Let the children be filled first, for it is not appropriate to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs."
- But she answered him, "Yes, Lord. Yet even the dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs."
- He said to her, "For this saying, go your way. The demon has gone out of your daughter."
- She went away to her house, and found the child having been laid on the bed, with the demon gone out.
- Again he departed from the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and came to the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the region of Decapolis.
- They brought to him one who was deaf and had an impediment in his speech. They begged him to lay his hand on him.
- He took him aside from the multitude, privately, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spat, and touched his tongue.
- Looking up to heaven, he sighed, and said to him, "Ephphatha!" that is, "Be opened!"
- Immediately his ears were opened, and the impediment of his tongue was released, and he spoke clearly.
- He commanded them that they should tell no one, but the more he commanded them, so much the more widely they proclaimed it.
- They were astonished beyond measure, saying, "He has done all things well. He makes even the deaf hear, and the mute speak!"
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