THE GREEK WOMAN'S DAUGHTER AND A DEAF AND DUMB MAN HEALED
AND from thence he arose, and went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon,
and 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: 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, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's
crumbs. And he said unto her, For this saying go thy way; the devil
is gone out of thy daughter. And when she was come to her house, she
found the devil gone out, and her daughter laid upon the bed.
And again, departing from the coasts of Tyre and Sidon, he came 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.