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Mark 7:34 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" Looking up to heaven, he sighed, and said to him, “Ephphatha!” that is, “Be opened!” "
Mark 7:34
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32 They brought to him one who was deaf and had an impediment in his speech. They begged him to lay his hand on him.
33 He took him aside from the multitude privately and put his fingers into his ears; and he spat and touched his tongue.
34 Looking up to heaven, he sighed, and said to him, “Ephphatha!” that is, “Be opened!”
35 Immediately his ears were opened, and the impediment of his tongue was released, and he spoke clearly.
36 He commanded them that they should tell no one, but the more he commanded them, so much the more widely they proclaimed it.
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Mark 7:1
"Then the Pharisees and some of the scribes gathered together to him, having come from Jerusalem."
Mark 7:2
"Now when they saw some of his disciples eating bread with defiled, that is unwashed, hands, they found fault."
Mark 7:3
"(For the Pharisees and all the Jews don’t eat unless they wash their hands and forearms, holding to the tradition of the elders."
Mark 7:4
"They don’t eat when they come from the marketplace unless they bathe themselves, and there are many other things which they have received to hold to: washings of cups, pitchers, bronze vessels, and couches.)"
Mark 7:5
"The Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why don’t your disciples walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with unwashed hands?”"
Mark 7:6
"He answered them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me."
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