Mark 7:34

Looking up to heaven, he sighed, and said to him, “Ephphatha!” that is, “Be opened!”

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WEBBE

Looking up to heaven, he sighed, and said to him, “Ephphatha!” that is, “Be opened!”

BSB

And looking up to heaven, He sighed deeply and said to him, “Ephphatha!” (which means, “Be opened!”).

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.

BBE

And looking up to heaven, he took a deep breath, and said to him, Ephphatha, that is, Be open.

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καὶ kai and G2532 ἀναβλέψας anablepsas having looked up G308 εἰς eis to G1519 τὸν ton (the) G3588 οὐρανὸν ouranon heaven G3772 ἐστέναξεν estenaxen He sighed deeply G4727 καὶ kai and G2532 λέγει legei He says G3004 αὐτῷ autō to him G846 εφφαθα ephphatha Ephphatha G2188 ὅ ho that G3739 ἐστιν estin is G1510 διανοίχθητι dianoichthēti do be opened G1272

The early church

(Vict. Ant. e Cat. in Marc.) He at the same time also groaned, as taking our cause upon Himself, and pitying human nature, seeing the misery into which it had fallen.
Pseudo-Chrysostom · d. 500Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)
(ubi sup.) He looked up to heaven, that He might teach us that thence is to be procured speech for the dumb, hearing for the deaf, health for all who are sick. And He sighed, not that it was necessary for Him to beg any thing from His Father with groaning, for He, together with the Father, gives all things to them who ask, but that He might give us an example of sighing, when for our own errors and those of our neighbours, we invoke the guardianship of the Divine mercy.
Bede · d. 735Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)
(ubi sup.) But that which He says, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened, belongs properly to the ears, for the ears are to be opened for hearing, but the tongue to be loosed from the bonds of its impediment, that it may be able to speak.
Bede · d. 735Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)
And looking up to heaven, he groaned, (Cf. Mat. 12:20. Luke 11:20) that is, He taught us to groan, and to raise up the treasures of our hearts to the heavens; because by the groaning of hearty compunction, the silly joy of the flesh is purged away.
Pseudo-Jerome · d. 9999Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 31–37

Here is a cure of one that was deaf and dumb. Those who brought this poor man to Christ, besought him to observe the case, and put forth his power. Our Lord used more outward actions in the doing of this cure than usual. These were only signs of Christ's power to cure the man, to encourage his faith, and theirs that brought him. Though we find great variety in the cases and manner of relief of those who applied to Christ, yet all obtained the relief they sought. Thus it still is in the great concerns of our souls.

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