Mark 7:32

κωφὸν καὶ μογιλάλον. Deaf people, being unable to hear the sounds which they make, often speak very imperfectly, and sometimes cease to attempt to speak at all. Mt. is here very different; instead of a single healing he gives us an indefinite number of various kinds. Μογιλάλος occurs here only in N.T., and Isaiah 35:6 only in LXX. In Exodus 4:11, LXX. has δύσκωφος, the Heb. in both places being the same. Many MSS. have μογγιλάλον, as if from μογγός, “with harsh voice,” a rare word; μόγις λαλῶν is the true derivation.

παρακαλοῦσιν. The man could not speak for himself and his friends act for him, as in the case of the paralytic (Mark 2:3-5). See on Mark 8:22.

ἐπιθῇ αὐτῷ τ. χεῖρα. Cf. Mark 5:23; Mark 6:5. Christ does more than this, apparently in order to secure faith on the man’s part.