Mark 7:21-23: For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”
- Vss. 24-26: A Gentile woman’s request:
Mark 3:7-8: Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea, and a great crowd followed, from Galilee and Judea and Jerusalem and Idumea and from beyond the Jordan and from around Tyre and Sidon. When the great crowd heard all that he was doing, they came to him.
One: Interruption after interruption
Two: It became hostile and dangerous for Him and His disciples
Three: To emphasize the mission to the Gentiles
Matthew 15:22: And behold, a woman of Canaan coming out of these borders cried to Him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David! My daughter is grievously vexed with a demon.
- Vss. 27-30; Jesus Responds to the Woman’s Request.
Kunarion-( koo-nar’-ee-on) a little dog; a puppy:
Harry Ironside said, “Nothing appealed to our blessed Lord more than faith coupled with humility.”
- Vss. 31-37: Jesus Heals a Deaf Man:
Matthew 15:29-31: Jesus went on from there and walked beside the Sea of Galilee. And he went up on the mountain and sat down there. And great crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many others, and they put them at his feet, and he healed them, so that the crowd wondered, when they saw the mute speaking, the crippled healthy, the lame walking, and the blind seeing. And they glorified the God of Israel.
G. Campbell Morgan said; “He adapts His method to the peculiar circumstances of need of the one with whom He is dealing. I am quite convinced if we could perfectly know these men we should discover the reason for the method. In each case Christ adapted Himself to the need of the man.”
Ephphatha (ef-fath-ah’) is Aramaic for “be opened, be released”
The ancient Greek word for impediment in his speech is mogilalon
Isaiah 35:5-6: Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. Then the lame shall leap like a deer, and the tongue of the dumb [mogilalon] sing. For waters shall burst forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert.
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