Mark 7:21-37

21Evil thoughts, sexual sins, stealing, murder,

22adultery, greed, wickedness, cheating, shameless lust, envy, cursing, arrogance, and foolishness come from within a person.

23All these evils come from within and make a person unclean.”

24Jesus left that place and went to the territory of Tyre. He didn’t want anyone to know that he was staying in a house there. However, it couldn’t be kept a secret.

25A woman whose little daughter had an evil spirit heard about Jesus. She went to him and bowed down.

26The woman happened to be Greek, born in Phoenicia in Syria. She asked him to force the demon out of her daughter.

27Jesus said to her, “First, let the children eat all they want. It’s not right to take the children’s food and throw it to the dogs.”

28She answered him, “Lord, even the dogs under the table eat some of the children’s scraps.”

29Jesus said to her, “Because you have said this, go! The demon has left your daughter.”

30The woman went home and found the little child lying on her bed, and the demon was gone.

31Jesus then left the neighborhood of Tyre. He went through Sidon and the territory of the Ten Cities  to the Sea of Galilee.

32Some people brought to him a man who was deaf and who also had a speech defect. They begged Jesus to lay his hand on him.

33Jesus took him away from the crowd to be alone with him. He put his fingers into the man’s ears, and after spitting, he touched the man’s tongue.

34Then he looked up to heaven, sighed, and said to the man, “Ephphatha!” which means, “Be opened!”

35At once the man could hear and talk normally.

36Jesus ordered the people not to tell anyone. But the more he ordered them, the more they spread the news.

37Jesus completely amazed the people. They said, “He has done everything well. He makes the deaf hear and the mute talk.”