23. All these evils come from within and they defile.”
24. From that place he went off to the district of Tyre. He entered a house and wanted no one to know about it, but he could not escape notice.
25. Soon a woman whose daughter had an unclean spirit heard about him. She came and fell at his feet.
26. The woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by birth, and she begged him to drive the demon out of her daughter.
27. He said to her, “Let the children be fed first. For it is not right to take the food of the children and throw it to the dogs.”
28. She replied and said to him, “Lord, even the dogs under the table eat the children’s scraps.”
29. Then he said to her, “For saying this, you may go. The demon has gone out of your daughter.”
30. When the woman went home, she found the child lying in bed and the demon gone.
31. Again he left the district of Tyre and went by way of Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, into the district of the Decapolis.
32. And people brought to him a deaf man who had a speech impediment and begged him to lay his hand on him.
33. He took him off by himself away from the crowd. He put his finger into the man’s ears and, spitting, touched his tongue;
34. then he looked up to heaven and groaned, and said to him, “Ephphatha!” (that is, “Be opened!”)
35. And [immediately] the man’s ears were opened, his speech impediment was removed, and he spoke plainly.
36. He ordered them not to tell anyone. But the more he ordered them not to, the more they proclaimed it.
37. They were exceedingly astonished and they said, “He has done all things well. He makes the deaf hear and [the] mute speak.”