Gospel Of Matthew

Author(s): Mark Luke John
Publisher: Mark Luke John

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herself before him. She was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by birth, and she asked him to drive the evil spirit out of her daughter. Jesus said to her, "You must let the children have all they want first. It is not right, you know, to take the children's food and throw it to the dogs."
7:28 But she replied, "Yes, Lord, I know, but even the dogs under the table eat what the children leave."
7:29 - "If you can answer like that," Jesus said to her, "you can go home! The evil spirit has left your daughter."
7:30 - And she went back home and found the child lying quietly on her bed, and the evil spirit gone.
Jesus restores speech and hearing
7:31-34 Once more Jesus left the neighbourhood of Tyre and passed through Sidon towards the Lake of Galilee, and crossed the Ten Towns territory. They brought to him a man who was deaf and unable to speak intelligibly, and they implored him to put his hand upon him. Jesus took him away from the crowd by himself. He put his fingers in the man's ears and touched his tongue with his own saliva. Then, looking up to Heaven, he gave a deep sigh and said to him in Aramaic, "Open!"
7:35-37 - And his ears were opened and immediately whatever had tied his tongue came loose and he spoke quite plainly. Jesus gave instructions that they should tell no one about this happening, but the more he told them, the more they broadcast the news. People were absolutely amazed, and kept saying, "How wonderful he has done everything! He even makes the deaf hear and the dumb speak."
CHAPTER 8
He again feeds the people miraculously
8:1-3 About this time it happened again that a large crowd collected and had nothing to eat. Jesus called the disciples over to him and said, "My heart goes out to this crowd; they have been with me three days now and they have no food left. If I send them off home without anything, they will collapse on the way - and some of them have come from a distance."
8:4 - His disciples replied, "Where could anyone find the food to feed them here in this deserted spot?"
8:5 - "How many loaves have you got?" Jesus asked them.
"Seven," they replied.
8:6-10 So Jesus told the crowd to settle themselves on the ground. Then he took the seven loaves into his hands, and with a prayer of thanksgiving broke them, and gave them to the disciples to distribute to the people; and this they did. They had a few small fish as well, and after