To read the texts click on the texts: Gen 3:1-8; Mk 7:31-37
The text of today is a miracle that is found only in the Gospel
of Mark. The friends of the man who is deaf and has an impediment in his speech
bring him to Jesus. This is the first of two miracles in Mark in which Jesus
uses external methods. The other is in Mark 8,22-26. The healing occurs
immediately and the confirmation of the healing is shown in the man’s beginning
to speak. Jesus gives the crowd a command to silence, but it is disobeyed and
his reputation keeps spreading. The comment of the crowd indicates that they
are becoming aware that with Jesus the messianic age has dawned, since
according to Isaiah 35,5-6, healings of the blind, deaf and persons who were
disabled were signs that the messianic age had indeed dawned.
We can use our faculties of hearing and speaking to hear
selectively and to speak unkind and demeaning words, or we can use them to
listen attentively to the world around us and to speak words that are kind and
result in building up others.
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