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 Jesus, wishing  to  try  her  faith  still  more,  said: “It  is  not  good to take  the  bread  of  the  children,  and  to  cast  it  to  the  dogs.” But she,  nowise  discouraged,  answered: “Yea,  Lord,  for  the  whelps also eat  of  the  crumbs  that  fall  from  the  table  of  their  master.” Jesus was  pleased  with  the  humility  of  her  answer,  and  said: “O woman,  great  is  thy  faith. Be it  done  to  thee  as  thou  wilt.” At the  same  moment  her  daughter  was  cured.

After this  Jesus  returned  to  the  Sea  of  Galilee,  and  they brought to  Him  a man  who  was  deaf  and  dumb,  and  they  besought Him  that  He  would  lay  His  hand  upon  him. He took him aside  from  the  multitude,  put  His  fingers  into  the  man’s ears, touched  his  tongue  with  spittle,  sighed,  and  said:  “Ephpheta”,  that  is,  “be  opened”,  and  immediately  he  was  able  to speak and  hear. The people  cried  out: “He  hath  done  all  things well. He hath  made  both  the  deaf  to  hear,  and  the  dumb  to speak.”  “And  he  charged  them  that  they  should  tell  no  man. But the more  He  charged  them,  so  much  the  more  a great  deal  did they publish  it.”