And straightway his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain.
The blind see, the halt go, the lepers are cleansed: The deaf hear, the dead are raised up again, and the gospel is preached to the poor.
And by and by he arose, took up his bed, and went forth before them all: in so much that they were all amazed, and glorified God saying: we never saw it on this fashion.
and looked up to heaven and sighted, and said unto him: ephatha that is to say, be opened.
And he commanded them that they should tell no man. But the more he forbade them, so much the more a great deal they published it.