Mark 7:34

And looking up to heaven, he sighed and said to him, “Ephphatha” (that is, “Be opened”).

Text-Critical English NT

In The King James Version

And looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened.

In Context

33So Jesus took him aside privately, away from the crowd. Then he put his fingers into the man's ears, spit, and touched the man's tongue.

35Immediately the man's ears were opened, the impediment of his tongue was removed, and he began speaking clearly.

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Cross References

Mark 1:41Moved with compassion, Jesus stretched out his hand, touched the man, and said to him, “I am willing; be made clean.”

Mark 6:41Then he took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he said the blessing. He broke the loaves and gave them to his disciples to set before the people, and he divided the two fish among them all.

Mark 15:34And at the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lima sabachthani?” which means, “ My God, my God, why have yoʋ forsaken me?”

Luke 18:42So Jesus said to him, “Receive yoʋr sight; yoʋr faith has healed yoʋ.”

John 11:33When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in his spirit and troubled.

Matthew Henry on Mark 7:32-37

The Cure of a Deaf and Dumb Person. 31 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. 32 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. 33 And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue; 34 And looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened. 35 And… Read the whole commentary →

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