Mark 7:32-37
Matt 9:32-33; Luke 11:14 he took Mark 5:40, Mark 8:23; 1Kgs 17:19-22; 2Kgs 4:4-6, 2Kgs 4:33-34; John 9:6-7 put This was clearly a symbolical action; for these remedies evidently could not, by their natural efficacy, avail to produce so wonderful an effect. As the ears of the deaf appear closed, he applies his fingers to intimate that he would open them; and as the tongue of the dumb seems to be tied, or to cleave to the palate, he touches it, to intimate he would give loose and free motion to it. He accommodated himself to the weakness of those who might not indeed doubt his power, but fancy some external sign was requisite to healing. It was also thus made manifest, that this salutiferous power came from Himself, and that He who by one word, εφφαθα G2188, had healed the man, must be Divine. looking Mark 6:41; John 11:41, John 17:1 he sighed Mark 8:12; Isa 53:3; Ezek 21:6-7; Luke 19:41; John 11:33, John 11:35, John 11:38; Heb 4:15 Ephphatha Mark 5:41, Mark 15:34 Be opened Mark 1:41; Luke 7:14, Luke 18:42; John 11:43; Acts 9:34, Acts 9:40 Mark 2:12; Ps 33:9; Isa 32:3-4, Isa 35:5-6; Matt 11:5 Mark 1:44-45, Mark 3:12, Mark 5:43, Mark 8:26 were Mark 1:27, Mark 2:12, Mark 4:41, Mark 5:42, Mark 6:51; Ps 139:14; Acts 2:7-12, Acts 3:10-13, Acts 14:11 He hath Gen 1:31; Luke 23:41 he maketh Exod 4:10-11
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