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Text -- Mark 7:23-37 (NET)
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Context
7:23 All these evils come from within and defile a person .”
A Syrophoenician Woman’s Faith
7:24 After Jesus left there, he went to the region of Tyre . When he went into a house , he did not want anyone to know , but he was not able to escape notice .
7:25 Instead , a woman whose young daughter had an unclean spirit immediately heard about him and came and fell at his feet .
7:26 The woman was a Greek , of Syrophoenician origin . She asked him to cast the demon out of her daughter .
7:27 He said to her , “Let the children be satisfied first , for it is not right to take the children’s bread and to throw it to the dogs .”
7:28 She answered , “Yes , Lord , but even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs .”
7:29 Then he said to her , “Because you said this , you may go . The demon has left your daughter .”
7:30 She went home and found the child lying on the bed , and the demon gone .
Healing a Deaf Mute
7:31 Then Jesus went out again from the region of Tyre and came through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee in the region of the Decapolis .
7:32 They brought to him a deaf man who had difficulty speaking , and they asked him to place his hands on him .
7:33 After Jesus took him aside privately , away from the crowd , he put his fingers in the man’s ears , and after spitting , he touched his tongue .
7:34 Then he looked up to heaven and said with a sigh , “Ephphatha ” (that is , “Be opened ”).
7:35 And immediately the man’s ears were opened , his tongue loosened , and he spoke plainly .
7:36 Jesus ordered them not to tell anything . But as much as he ordered them not to do this, they proclaimed it all the more . more .
7:37 People were completely astounded and said , “He has done everything well . He even makes the deaf hear and the mute speak .”
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
JESUS CHRIST, 4C2 |
Jesus, The Christ |
Miracles |
Tyre |
Syrophenician |
Sidon |
ZAREPHATH |
MARK, THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO, 2 |
Faith |
SIDON (2) |
Prayer |
Demons |
GALILEE, SEA OF |
Ephphatha |
PHOENICIA; PHOENICIANS |
SYROPHOENICIAN |
Children |
Decapolis |
DUMB |
Marriage-feasts |
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NET Notes: Mar 7:24 Grk “And.” Here καί (kai) has been translated as “but” to indicate the contrast present in this context.
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NET Notes: Mar 7:26 Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.
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NET Notes: Mar 7:27 The term dogs does not refer to wild dogs (scavenging animals roaming around the countryside) in this context, but to small dogs taken in as house pet...
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NET Notes: Mar 7:29 Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.
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NET Notes: Mar 7:31 The Decapolis refers to a league of towns (originally consisting of ten; the Greek name literally means “ten towns”) whose region (except ...
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NET Notes: Mar 7:33 After spitting, he touched his tongue. It was not uncommon in Judaism of the day to associate curative powers with a person’s saliva. The scene ...
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NET Notes: Mar 7:34 The author’s parenthetical note gives the meaning of the Aramaic word Ephphatha.
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NET Notes: Mar 7:35 Grk “his”; the referent (the man who had been a deaf mute) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
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