Welcome to the Passion City Church D.C. Extercast. This is a special session for the Son of God series where Pastor Ben and John sit down to discuss pivotal moments in the life of Jesus that aren't covered on Sunday mornings.

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Today's episode covers Mark chapter 7 verse 24 through chapter 8 verse 26.

And from there he arose and went away to the region of Tyre and Sidon, and he entered a house and did not want anyone to know, yet he could not be hidden.

But immediately a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit heard of him and came and fell down at his feet.

Now the woman was a Gentile, a Syrophonician by birth, and she begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter.

And he said to her, let the children be fed first, for it is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs.

But she answered him, yes Lord, yet even the dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs, and he said to her, for this statement you may go your way.

The demon has left your daughter, and she went home and found the child lying in the bed and the demon gone.

Then he returned from 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 hand on him.

And taking him aside from the crowd privately, he put his fingers into his ears, and after spitting touched his tongue, and looking up to heaven he sighed and said to him,

Fatha, that is, be opened.

And his ears were opened, his tongue was released, and he spoke plainly.

And Jesus charged them to tell no one, but the more he charged them, the more zealously they proclaimed it.

And they were astonished beyond measure, saying, he has done all things well, he even makes the deaf hear in the mute speak.

In those days, when again a crowd had gathered and they had nothing to eat, he called his disciples to him and said to them,

I have compassion on the crowd, because they have been with me now three days and have nothing to eat.

And if I send them away hungry to their homes, they will faint on the way, and some of them have come from far away.

And his disciples answered him, how can one feed these people with bread here in this desolate place?

And he asked them, how many loaves do you have? They said seven.

And he directed the crowd to sit down on the ground, and he took the seven loaves, and having given thanks he broke them and gave them to his disciples to set before the people,

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