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Welcome to our Lent podcast.

Good morning. My name is Megan. This Lent season, we're working through some of the miracles

of Jesus shared with us across the gospel accounts. We were looking at each of these miracles

points us to the greatest of all miracles, which is the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.

The miracle of Jesus we are focused on today is found in Mark 7, 31 through 37.

Before reading this scripture, to give context to this passage, we need to look two chapters

earlier in Mark.

In Mark chapter 5, Jesus healed an uncontrollable, demon-possessed man who had a legion

of demons.

After Jesus cast the demons out and the man returned to his right mind,

he begged to go with Jesus. We see in Mark 5, 19 through 20, Jesus speaking,

Go home to your friends and tell them how much the Lord has done for you and how he has had mercy on you.

And he went away and began to proclaim in the Decapolis how much Jesus had

done for him and everyone marbled. At this point in Jesus' ministry, he has fed thousands, walked on

water, and healed, as well as performed the miracle in this very region captured in Mark 5.

So when we get to Mark 7 and Jesus arrives in the Decaplis, the people have

already heard of his miraculous powers. With that background, let's read Mark 731 through 37.

Then he returned to the region of Tyre and went through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee in the region

of the Decapolis.

And they brought to him a man who was deaf and had a speech impediment.

And they begged him to lay his hands on him.

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