Bible verse
And looking up to heaven, He sighed deeply and said to him, “Ephphatha!” (which means, “Be opened!”).
Mark 7:34 · BSB
The verses around it, from Mark 7.
30 And she went home and found her child lying on the bed, and the demon was gone.
31 Then Jesus left the region of Tyre and went through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee and into the region of the Decapolis.
32 Some people brought to Him a man who was deaf and hardly able to speak, and they begged Jesus to place His hand on him.
33 So Jesus took him aside privately, away from the crowd, and put His fingers into the man’s ears. Then He spit and touched the man’s tongue.
34 And looking up to heaven, He sighed deeply and said to him, “Ephphatha!” (which means, “Be opened!”).
35 Immediately the man’s ears were opened and his tongue was released, and he began to speak plainly.
36 Jesus ordered them not to tell anyone. But the more He ordered them, the more widely they proclaimed it.
37 The people were utterly astonished and said, “He has done all things well! He makes even the deaf hear and the mute speak!”
KJV
And looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened.
ASV
and looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened.
ERV
and looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened.
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