Mark 7:24-37

Christian Standard Bible

A Gentile Mother’s Faith

²⁴ He got up and departed from^(A) there to the region of Tyre.^[a](B) He entered a house and did not want anyone to know it, but he could not escape notice. ²⁵ Instead, immediately after hearing about him, a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit^(C) came and fell at his feet.^{(D) 26} The woman was a Gentile,^[b](E) a Syrophoenician by birth, and she was asking him to cast the demon^(F) out of her daughter. ²⁷ He said to her, “Let the children be fed first, because it isn’t right to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”^(G)

²⁸ But she replied to him, “Lord,^(H) even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.”

²⁹ Then he told her, “Because of this reply, you may go. The demon has left your daughter.” ³⁰ When she went back to her home, she found her child lying on the bed, and the demon was gone.

Jesus Does Everything Well

³¹ Again, leaving the region of Tyre,^(I) he went by way of Sidon to the Sea of Galilee,^(J) through^[c] the region of the Decapolis.^{(K) 32} They brought to him a deaf^(L) man who had difficulty speaking^(M) and begged Jesus to lay his hand on^(N) him. ³³ So he took him away from the crowd in private. After putting his fingers in the man’s ears and spitting,^(O) he touched his tongue. ³⁴ Looking up to heaven,^(P) he sighed deeply and said to him, “Ephphatha!”^[d] (that is, “Be opened!”). ³⁵ Immediately his ears were opened,^(Q) his tongue was loosened, and he began to speak clearly.^{(R) 36} He ordered them to tell no one,^(S) but the more he ordered them, the more they proclaimed it.^(T)

³⁷ They were extremely astonished and said, “He has done everything well.^(U) He even makes the deaf^(V) hear and the mute speak.”^(W)