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Mark 7:35

And straightway his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain.

KJV

καὶ ἠνοίγησαν αὐτοῦ αἱ ἀκοαί, καὶ εὐθὺς ἐλύθη ὁ δεσμὸς τῆς γλώσσης αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐλάλει ὀρθῶς.

Greek NT

Et statim apertæ sunt aures ejus, et solutum est vinculum linguæ ejus, et loquebatur recte.

Vulgate

And his ears were opened, and the bond of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain.

ASV

And immediately his ears were opened and the string of his tongue was loosed and he spoke right.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

11 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
γλῶσσα
glossa
noun · 50×
δεσμόν
desmon
noun · 18×
εὐθέως
eutheos
adverb · 85×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
λαλέω
laleo
verb · 298×
λύω
luo
verb · 42×
ἀκοή
akoe
noun · 24×
ἀνοίγω
anoigo
verb · 76×
ὀρθῶς
orthos
adverb · 4×
o
article · 19778×

Textual variants

2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

notable
SBLGNT: καὶ | WH/Treg: καὶ | NIV/RP: + εὐθέως
  • καὶSBLGNT
  • καὶWestcott-Hort, Tregelles
  • + εὐθέωςReader's GNT (NA27), Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
minor
SBLGNT: ἠνοίγησαν | WH/Treg/NIV: ἠνοίγησαν | RP: διηνοίχθησαν
  • ἠνοίγησανSBLGNT
  • ἠνοίγησανWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • διηνοίχθησανRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Miracle

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§1504Often Jesus asks the sick to believe.107 He makes use of signs to heal: spittle and the laying on of hands,108 mud and washing.109 The sick try to touch him, "for power came forth from him and healed them all."110 and so in the sacraments Christ continues to "touch" us in order to heal us.

Cross-references

  • Isa 32:3 — And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken.
  • Isa 35:5 — Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.
  • Mark 2:12 — And immediately he arose, took up the bed, and went forth before them all; insomuch that they were all amazed, and glorified God, saying, We never saw it on this fashion.
  • Matt 11:5 — The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.
  • Matt 12:22 — Then was brought unto him one possessed with a devil, blind, and dumb: and he healed him, insomuch that the blind and dumb both spake and saw.
  • Ps 33:9 — For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.