And anon his ears were opened, and the band of his tongue was unbound, and he spake rightly.
For he said, and things were made; he commanded, and things were made of nought.
Blind men see, crooked men go, mesels be made clean, deaf men hear, dead men rise again, poor men be taken to preaching of the gospel.
And anon he rose up, and when he had taken the bed, he went before all men, so that all men wondered, and honoured God, and said, For we saw never so.
And he beheld into heaven, and sorrowed within, and said [to him], Ephphatha, that is, Be thou opened.
And he commanded to them, that they should say to no man; but how much he commanded to them, so much the more they preached,