Jesus walks on water and calms the it with the wave of his hand, he heals people who simply touch his cloak, and with mere words he tells the lame to walk, the demons to leave, and dead to rise. So if he can perform miracles with such little effort, why does he have to stick a couple fingers in the ears of a deaf man with a speech impediment and another couple of spit-covered fingers on his tongue to heal him? It seems so convoluted compared to the rest of his miracles. (Mark 7:32-35)
I suppose he may have just wanted to do something different that day. Or maybe this man didn't have the same faith as the others Jesus had performed miracles on. I don't know, but it was an interesting contrast.
He was probably some gentile that deserved such treatment. A little humiliation with that healing to set those gentiles straight.
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