Mark 7:32

one that was deaf The healing of this man, on the east side of the Jordan, is related only by St Mark.

and had an impediment The word thus rendered does not imply that he was a mute, as some have thought, but that with his deafness was connected a disturbance of the organs of speech, so that he could make no intelligible sounds. Tyndale renders it "one that was deffe and stambred in hys speche."

they beseech him This is one of the few instances where the friends of the sufferer brought the sick man to Christ. We have already met with another instance in the case of the paralytic borne of four (Mark 2:3-5), and shall meet with another in the case of the blind man of Bethsaida in Mark 8:22-26.