2 Kings 20:7

20:7 Isaiah ordered, “Get a fig cake.” So they did as he ordered ¹  and placed it on the ulcerated sore, and he recovered. ² 

Mark 7:33

7:33 After Jesus ³  took him aside privately, away from the crowd, he put his fingers in the man’s ⁴  ears, and after spitting, he touched his tongue. ⁵ 

John 9:6

9:6 Having said this, ⁶  he spat on the ground and made some mud ⁷  with the saliva. He ⁸  smeared the mud on the blind man’s ⁹  eyes

¹ tn Heb “and they got [a fig cake].”

² tn Heb “and he lived.”

³ tn Grk “he”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁴ tn Grk “his”; the referent (the deaf man) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁵ sn 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 as a whole reflects Jesus’ willingness to get close to people and have physical contact with them where appropriate. See W. L. Lane, Mark (NICNT), 267 n. 78.

⁶ tn Grk “said these things.”

⁷ tn Or “clay” (moistened earth of a clay-like consistency). The textual variant preserved in the Syriac text of Ephraem’s commentary on the Diatessaron (“he made eyes from his clay”) probably arose from the interpretation given by Irenaeus in Against Heresies: “that which the Artificer, the Word, had omitted to form in the womb, he then supplied in public.” This involves taking the clay as an allusion to Gen 2:7, which is very unlikely.

⁸ tn Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, the conjunction καί (kai) was replaced by a third person pronoun and a new sentence started here in the translation.

⁹ tn Grk “on his.”