Mark 7:24-7:37

Beyond Boundaries

Today we'll once again concern ourselves with two things that go together - faith and healing. Faith, of course, is the cornerstone of our relationship with God. We are saved by simple faith in Jesus Christ as Savior. That faith can also lead to some other amazing things, as we'll see today.

  1. And from thence he arose, and went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and entered into an house, and would have no man know it: but he could not be hid.
  2. For a certain woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet:
  3. The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter.
  4. But Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it unto the dogs.
  5. And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.
  6. And he said unto her, For this saying go thy way; the devil is gone out of thy daughter.
  7. And when she was come to her house, she found the devil gone out, and her daughter laid upon the bed.
  8. And again, departing from the coasts of Tyre and Sidon, he came unto the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the coasts of Decapolis.
  9. And they bring unto him one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his speech; and they beseech him to put his hand upon him.
  10. And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue;
  11. And looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened.
  12. And straightway his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain.
  13. And he charged them that they should tell no man: but the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they published it;
  14. And were beyond measure astonished, saying, He hath done all things well: he maketh both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.