Mark 7:24-35

²⁴Then Jesus left and went to the region of Tyre. He didn't want anyone to know he was staying in a house there, but he couldn't keep it a secret.

²⁵As soon as a woman, whose little daughter had an evil spirit, heard about him she came and fell at his feet.

²⁶The woman was Greek, born in Syrophoenicia. She begged Jesus to drive out the demon from her daughter.

²⁷“First let the children eat until they're full,” Jesus replied. “It's not right to take the children's food and throw it to the dogs.”

²⁸“True, sir,” she said, “but even the dogs under the table eat the scraps the children leave.”

²⁹Jesus told her, “For such an answer you may go—the demon has left your daughter.”

³⁰She went home and found the child lying on the bed, the demon gone.

³¹Leaving the region of Tyre, Jesus passed through Sidon and then on to the Sea of Galilee and the territory of the Ten Cities.

³²There they brought him a deaf man who also could not speak properly. They asked Jesus to touch the man with his hand and heal him.

³³After Jesus took him aside from the crowd, Jesus put his fingers in the deaf man's ears. Then he touched the man's tongue with spit.

³⁴Jesus looked up to heaven and with a sigh he said, “Ephphatha,” which means, “Open!”

³⁵The man's ears were opened, his speech impediment was gone, and he began speaking properly.