## Mark 7:31-37

**Jesus Heals a Deaf-Mute**

**31** Again, departing from the region of Tyre and Sidon, He came through the midst of the region of Decapolis to the Sea of Galilee.

**32** Then they brought to Him one who was deaf and had an impediment in his speech, and they begged Him to put His hand on him.

**33** And He took him aside from the multitude, and put His fingers in his ears, and He spat and touched his tongue.

**34** Then, looking up to heaven, He sighed, and said to him, “Ephphatha, ” that is, “Be opened.”

**35** Immediately his ears were opened, and the impediment of his tongue was loosed, and he spoke plainly.

**36** Then He commanded them that they should tell no one; but the more He commanded them, the more widely they proclaimed it.

**37** And they were astonished beyond measure, saying, “He has done all things well. He makes both the deaf to hear and the mute to speak.”

## Context

1. What was Jesus doing in gentile lands? (Mark 5:20, 7:24, 31)

2. What was wrong with the man? (Mark 7:32)

3. Why did Jesus heal in this way? How is this miracle so remarkable? (Exodus 4:11, Isaiah 35:3-6, Mark 2:3, 7:33, 8:23, John 9:6)

4. What do we learn from their response? Why the instruction to keep quiet? (Mark 1:44, 5:43, 7:36, 37, 8:26)

## Testimony Time

1. How has Jesus opened your ears and changed your speech?

2. How has he astonished you ‘beyond measure’? (Jeremiah 33:3, Mark 5:42, 6:51, Acts 4:13, Ephesians 1:7-9)