Thematic Bible: Heals a deaf man (in the decapolis region)


Thematic Bible



On leaving that place Jesus went along the shore of the Sea of Galilee; and after climbing a hill, took his seat there. Great crowds came to him, bringing the crippled, the blind, the maimed, the dumb, and many others. They laid them at his feet and he healed them; so that the crowd wondered when they saw the dumb speaking, the cripples walking, and the blind seeing. And they glorified the God of Israel.

Again he left the region of Tyre, and passed through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, crossing the District of the Ten Towns. And they brought to him a deaf man who stammered, and begged him to lay his hands upon him. So Jesus took him aside from the crowd, by himself, and put his finger in the man's ears, and moistened his tongue with saliva; read more.
then looking up to heaven with a sigh, he said to him, "Ephphatha!" (that is, "Be opened.") And his ears were opened and the bond of his tongue was loosened, and he spoke plainly. Then Jesus charged them not to tell any one, but the more he charged them, the more they published it; and people were amazed beyond measure saying. "How successfully he does things! Even the deaf he makes to hear, and the dumb to speak."