31 Again, leaving the region of Tyre,  * 7:31 Ac 21:7 he went by way of Sidon to the Sea of Galilee,  * 7:31 Mt 4:18; 15:29; Mk 1:16; Jn 6:1 through  * 7:31 Or into the region of the Decapolis.  * 7:31 Mt 4:25; Mk 5:2032 They brought to him a deaf  * 7:32 Lk 7:22 man who had difficulty speaking  * 7:32 Ex 4:11; Is 35:6; 56:10 and begged Jesus to lay his hand on  * 7:32 1Tm 5:22 him. 33 So he took him away from the crowd in private. After putting his fingers in the man’s ears and spitting,  * 7:33 Jn 9:6 he touched his tongue. 34 Looking up to heaven,  * 7:34 Mt 24:35; Lk 12:33; Ac 17:24; Eph 6:9; Rv 21:10 he sighed deeply and said to him, "Ephphatha! "  * 7:34 An Aramaic expression (that is, "Be opened! "). 35 Immediately his ears were opened,  * 7:35 Phm 10 his tongue was loosened, and he began to speak clearly.  * 7:35 Lk 20:2136 He ordered them to tell no one,  * 7:36 Mk 1:44; Lk 8:56 but the more he ordered them, the more they proclaimed it.  * 7:36 Mk 1:4

37 They were extremely astonished and said, "He has done everything well.  * 7:37 Gn 1:31 He even makes the deaf  * 7:37 Lk 7:22 hear and the mute speak."  * 7:37 Mk 9:17