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She was a Gentile woman, a Syro-phoenician by nation: and again and again she begged Him to expel the demon from her daughter.
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"Let the children first eat all they want," He said; "it is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs."
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"True, Sir," she replied, "and yet the dogs under the table eat the children's scraps."
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"For those words of yours, go home," He replied; "the demon has gone out of your daughter."
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So she went home, and found the child lying on the bed, and the demon gone.
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Returning from the neighbourhood of Tyre, He came by way of Sidon to the Lake of Galilee, passing through the district of the Ten Towns.
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Here they brought to Him a deaf man that stammered, on whom they begged Him to lay His hands.
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So Jesus taking him aside, apart from the crowd, put His fingers into his ears, and spat, and moistened his tongue;
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and looking up to Heaven He sighed, and said to him, "Ephphatha!" (that is, "Open!")
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And the man's ears were opened, and his tongue became untied, and he began to speak perfectly.
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Then Jesus charged them to tell no one; but the more He charged them, all the more did they spread the news far and wide.