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The Healing of the Deaf Mute
By Ray Brown
Sermon Notes

The Healing of the Deaf mute

Mark 7:31-37

Introduction

1.Our spiritual inability to hear and speak enacted   (vss.31-37)
2.Even ‘The 12’ cannot hear or speak the truth without a miracle   (vss.31-37)
3.The world cannot hear or speak the truth without a miracle   (vss.31-37)
4.Some implications
Bible Passage

Mark 7:31–37 (Listen)

Jesus Heals a Deaf Man

31 Then he returned from the region of Tyre and went through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, in the region of the Decapolis. 32 And they brought to him a man who was deaf and had a speech impediment, and they begged him to lay his hand on him. 33 And taking him aside from the crowd privately, he put his fingers into his ears, and after spitting touched his tongue. 34 And looking up to heaven, he sighed and said to him, “Ephphatha,” that is, “Be opened.” 35 And his ears were opened, his tongue was released, and he spoke plainly. 36 And Jesus1 charged them to tell no one. But the more he charged them, the more zealously they proclaimed it. 37 And they were astonished beyond measure, saying, “He has done all things well. He even makes the deaf hear and the mute speak.”

Footnotes

[1] 7:36 Greek he

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