Mark 7:32 (BSB)
Some people brought to Him a man who was deaf and hardly able to speak, and they begged Jesus to place His hand on him.
Commentary on Mark 7:32
- John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on Mark 7:32: Mark 7:32. And they bring to him one who was deaf. The reason why they implored him to lay his hands upon him may be learned from passages which we have already considered; for the laying on of hands was a solemn symbol of consecration, “Pour dedier et eonsacrer les personnes;” — “for dedicating and con-secrating persons.” and by means of it, the gifts of...
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Mark 7:31-37: Our Lord Jesus seldom staid long in a place, for he knew where his work lay, and attended the changes of it. When he had cured the woman of Canaan's daughter, he had done what he had to do in that place, and therefore presently left those parts, and returned to the sea of Galilee, whereabout his usual residence was; yet he did not come...
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Mark 7:32: And he took him aside from the multitude,.... To shun all appearance of ostentation and vain glory: and put his fingers into his ears; the finger of his right hand into his left ear, and the finger of his left hand into his right ear: and he spit and touched his tongue; that is, either he spit upon his tongue, for so the Vulgate Latin...
- Albert Barnes (Presbyterian), Barnes' New Testament Notes on Mark 7:32: Verse 32. They bring. That is, his friends brought, or the people brought. One that was deaf, and had an impediment in his speech. Not entirely dumb, but who spoke indistinctly or with difficulty. His deafness might not have been of long standing; and his speech, therefore, not entirely ruined. To put his hand upon him. That is, to cure him. Blessings were commonly imparted by laying on the hands.