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Gospel: Mark 7:24-37
Jesus set out and went away to the region of Tyre. He entered a house and did not want anyone to
know he was there. Yet he could not escape notice, but a woman whose little daughter had an unclean
spirit immediately heard about him, and she came and bowed down at his feet. Now the woman was a
Gentile, of Syrophoenician origin. She begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter. He said to
her, “Let the children be fed first, for it is not fair to take the children’s food and throw it to the dogs.”
But she answered him, “Sir, even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.” Then he said to
her, “For saying that, you may go—the demon has left your daughter.” So she went home, found the
child lying on the bed, and the demon gone.
Then he returned from the region of Tyre, and went by way of Sidon towards the Sea of Galilee, in the
region of the Decapolis. They brought to him a deaf man who had an impediment in his speech; and
they begged him to lay his hand on him. He took him aside in private, away from the crowd, and put
his fingers into his ears, and he spat and touched his tongue. Then looking up to heaven, he sighed
and said to him, “Ephphatha,” that is, “Be opened.” And immediately his ears were opened, his tongue
was released, and he spoke plainly. Then Jesus ordered them to tell no one; but the more he ordered
them, the more zealously they proclaimed it. They were astounded beyond measure, saying, “He has
done everything well; he even makes the deaf to hear and the mute to speak.”
