them, "Go and tell that fox, 'See,
I cast out evil spirits and cure the sick to-day and to-morrow, but
on the third day I must go on my way; for it cannot be that a prophet
will be put to death anywhere except in Jerusalem.'"

Jesus left Capernaum and went into the land of Tyre and Sidon. Going
into a house, he wished that no one should know that he was there, but
he could not escape notice. Soon a woman whose little daughter had an
evil spirit heard of him and came and knelt at his feet. Now the woman
was a heathen of the Phoenician race. She begged him to drive the evil
spirit out of her daughter, but he said to her, "Let the children of
Israel first be fed, for it is not fair to take their bread and throw it
to the dogs!" She answered him, "True, sir, yet the little dogs under
the table do eat the children's crumbs." He said to her, "Because of
this answer go to your home; the evil spirit has gone out of your
daughter." On returning home she found the child lying on the bed and
the evil spirit gone from her.

Jesus again left the land of Tyre and passed through Sidon to the Sea of
Galilee, crossing the land of Decapolis. The people brought to him a
deaf man, who also stammered; and they begged Jesus to lay his hand on
him.

Jesus took the man away from the crowd, put his fingers into the man's
ears, touched his tongue with saliva, and looking up to heaven, sighed,
and said to him, "Ephphatha" (which means "Open"). And at once, the man
could hear and could talk without stammering.

Then Jesus told them to tell no one, but in spite of what he said the
people kept telling about it, saying: "How well he has done everything!
He even makes the deaf hear, and the dumb speak."

JESUS MAKES AN HEROIC CHOICE

On their way to the villages of Caesarea Philippi Jesus asked his
disciples, "Who do people say I am?" They told him, "John the Baptist;
others say, 'Elijah'; some say, 'One of the prophets.'" Then he said to
them, "But you yourselves, who do you say that I am?" Peter answered
him, "You are the Christ." But he strictly charged them to tell no one
that he was the Christ.

Then Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must suffer many
things and be rejected by the elders and high priests and scribes and be
killed, but that after three days he would rise from the dead. This he
said openly; and Peter tried to reprove him. But Jesus turned and,
looking upon his disciples, reproved Peter, saying, "Away with yo