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Interesting Tidbit Mark 7:33-35 When Jesus returned from the region of Tyre, he went through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, through the region of Decapolis. Here they brought him a deaf man with a speech impediment, and they pleaded with him to lay his hand on him and he took him aside privately, away from the crowd. Then he put his fingers into the man’s ears, and after spitting, he touched his tongue and looking up into heaven, he sighed deeply and said to him: “Ephphatha,” that is, “Be opened.” At this his ears were opened, and his speech impediment was removed, and he began speaking normally. I've often wondered about this healing by Jesus. Why did he take the man aside from the crowd? Why did he touch his ears? Why did he spit? Why did he look to heaven and sigh? Well, when you consider Jesus' love and compassion and kindness it would seem possible that he may have sensed a nervous or even embarrassed disposition of the man and wanted to alleviate this and so took him to a private place. Also, thinking about how we communicate with deaf people today, in signs, then it is likely that Jesus did the same thing, touching his ears so the man new that he was going to heal his hearing. As well, spitting was a means or sign of healing accepted by both Jews and Gentiles at that time and the use of saliva in cures is reported in rabbinic writings. Jesus may have spit simply to convey to the man that he was to be healed. Jesus wasn't using his saliva as a natural or miraculous healing agent. Likewise, when he looked to Heaven and uttered a sigh, it wasn't in exasperation or tiredness or anything like that but was a simple way to convey to the man that what he was about to experience was not from Jesus himself but from Jehovah God. A simple explanation but very logical. It sure makes this verses make more sense. Katidid. |
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