SYROPHENICIAN WOMAN--BLIND MEN--FEEDS FOUR THOUSAND.
Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon.
And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried
unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord _thou_ Son of David: my
daughter is grievously vexed with a devil. But he answered her not a
word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away,
for she crieth after us. But he answered and said,
I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
And (he) entered into an house, and would have no man know _it_: but he
could not be hid. For a _certain_ woman, whose young daughter had an
unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet, and
worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me. The woman was a Greek, a
Syrophenician by nation: and she besought him that he would cast forth
the devil out of her daughter. But Jesus said unto her,
Let the children first be filled; for it is not meet to take
the children's bread, and to cast _it_ unto the dogs.
And she answered and said unto him, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs under the
table, eat of the children's crumbs which fall from their masters'
table. Then Jesus answered and said unto her,
O woman, great _is_ thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou
wilt.
And he said unto her,
For this saying go thy way; the devil is gone out of thy
daughter.
And her daughter was made whole from that very hour. And when she was
come to her house, she found the devil gone out, and her daughter laid
upon the bed.
And again Jesus departed from the coasts of Tyre and Sidon, and came
nigh unto the sea of Galilee: through the midst of the coasts of
Decapolis. And they bring unto him one that was deaf, and had an
impediment in his speech; and they beseech him to put his hand upon him.
And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his
ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue; and looking up to heaven, he
sighed, and saith unto him,
Ephphatha, that is, Be opened.
And straightway his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was
loosed, and he spake plain. And he charged them that they should tell no
man: but the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they
published _it_; and were beyond measure astonished, saying, He hath
done all things well: he maketh both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to
speak.
And (Jesus) went up into a mountain, and sat down there. And great
multitudes came unto him, having with them _those that were_ lame,
blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and cast them down at Jesus' feet;
and he healed them; insomuch that the multitude wondered, when they saw
the dumb to speak, the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk, and the
blind to see: and they glorified the God of Israel.
In those days the multitude being very great, and having nothing to eat,
Jesus called his disciples _unto him_, and saith unto them,
I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now been
with me three days, and have nothing to eat: and if I send
them away fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the
way.
For divers of them came from far. And his disciples say unto him, Whence
should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fill so great a
multitude? And Jesus saith unto them,
How many loaves have ye?
And they said, Seven, and a few little fishes. And he commanded the
multitude to sit down on the ground. And he took the seven loaves and
the fishes, and gave thanks, and brake _them_, and gave to his
disciples, to set before _them_; and they did set _them_ before the
people. And they had a few small fishes; and he blessed, and commanded
to set them also before _them_. And they did all eat, and were filled:
and they took up of the broken _meat_ that was left seven baskets full.
And they that did eat were four thousand men, beside women and children.