Mark 7:24-35

²⁴He got up from there and went away to the region of Tyre and Sidon. There he went into a house and he wanted no one to know where he was, but he could not be hidden.

²⁵In fact , as soon a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit heard about him, she came and fell down at his feet.

²⁶Now the woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by descent. She begged him to cast out the demon from her daughter.

²⁷He said to her, “Let the children first be fed. For it is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs.”

²⁸But she answered and said to him, “Yes, Lord, even the dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs.”

²⁹He said to her, “Because you have said this, you are free to go. The demon has gone out of your daughter.”

³⁰She went back to her house and found the child lying on the bed, and the demon was gone.

³¹Then he went out again from the region of Tyre, and went through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee up into the region of the Decapolis.

³²They brought to him someone who was deaf and had difficulty speaking, and they begged him to lay his hand on him.

³³He took him aside from the crowd privately, and he put his fingers into his ears, and after spitting, he touched his tongue.

³⁴He looked up to heaven, he sighed and said to him, “Ephphatha,” that is to say, “Open!”

³⁵At once his ears were opened, his tongue was released, and he began to speak plainly.