Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Mark 7:24-30
Mark CHILDREN AND LITTLE DOGS Mar_7:24 - Mar_7:30 . Our Lord desired to withdraw from the excited crowds who were flocking after Him as a mere miracle-worker and from the hostile espionage of emissaries of the Pharisees, ‘which had come from Jerusalem.’ Therefore He sought seclusion in heathen territory. He, too, knew the need of quiet, and felt the longing to plunge into privacy, to escape for a time from the pressure of admirers and of foes, and to go where no man knew Him. How near to us... read more
Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Mark 7:32-37
4. The Healing of the Deaf and Dumb Man. Mark 7:32-37(Parallel: Matthew 15:29-31) 32And they bring unto him one that was deaf,14 and had an impediment in his speech 33[a stammerer]; and they beseech him to put his hand upon him. And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spit, and touched his 34tongue: And, looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that Isaiah , 35 Be opened. And straightway15 his ears were opened, and the... read more