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Deafness and the corruption of speech are not defects that fell on one, or some. They are the result of the hereditary disease, inherited by every child begotten of man and born of woman, carried down the ages, to your own ears and mouth, here in this park this morning. For you have your own instances of the same deafness and muteness. After all, this is not just an account told once about a healing long ago. When did you last hear His word and turn a deaf ear to it? Was it

Jesus looked up to heaven, and sighed. It’s a rather remarkable, though subtle, piece of the Gospel the Evangelist gives us here: that,...

Why does Jesus put His fingers in this man’s ear and touch his tongue with spit? Why didn’t He just say, “Ears, open; tongue, talk. Be...