Thematic Bible: One deaf-mute man cured

He left the neighborhood of Tyre again and went by way of Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, crossing the district of the Ten Towns. And they brought to him a man who was deaf and hardly able to speak, and they begged him to lay his hand on him. He took him off by himself away from the crowd, and put his fingers in the man's ears, and touched his tongue with saliva. read more.
And he looked up to heaven and sighed, and said to him, "Ephphatha!"??hich means "Open." And his ears were opened and his tongue was released and he talked plainly. And Jesus forbade them to tell anyone about it, but the more he forbade them the more they spread the news far and wide. And people were utterly amazed, and said, "How well he has done everything! He even makes the deaf hear and the dumb speak!"