²⁴Jesus got up and went away from there to the region of Tyre. And when He had entered a house, He wanted no one to know of it; yet He could not escape notice. ²⁵But after hearing of Him, a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit immediately came and fell at His feet. ²⁶Now the woman was a Gentile, of the Syrophoenician race. And she kept asking Him to cast the demon out of her daughter. ²⁷And He was saying to her, "Let the children be satisfied first, for it is not good to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs."²⁸But she answered and *said to Him, "Yes, Lord, but even the dogs under the table feed on the children's crumbs." ²⁹And He said to her, "Because of this answer go; the demon has gone out of your daughter."³⁰And going back to her home, she found the child lying on the bed, the demon having left.

³¹Again He went out from the region of Tyre, and came through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, within the region of Decapolis. ³²They *brought to Him one who was deaf and spoke with difficulty, and they *implored Him to lay His hand on him. ³³Jesus took him aside from the crowd, by himself, and put His fingers into his ears, and after spitting, He touched his tongue with the saliva; ³⁴and looking up to heaven with a deep sigh, He *said to him, "Ephphatha!"that is, "Be opened!"³⁵And his ears were opened, and the impediment of his tongue was removed, and he began speaking plainly. ³⁶And He gave them orders not to tell anyone; but the more He ordered them, the more widely they continued to proclaim it. ³⁷They were utterly astonished, saying, "He has done all things well; He makes even the deaf to hear and the mute to speak."