Mark 7:34

looking up to heaven This upturned look expressive of an act of prayer and an acknowledgment of His oneness with the Father, occurs also (1) in the blessing of the five loaves and two fishes (Matthew 14:19; Mark 6:41), (2) at the raising of Lazarus (John 11:41), and (3) before the great high-priestly prayer for the Apostles (John 17:1).

he sighed or "groaned" as in the Rhemish Version. The sigh of the "First-born among many brethren" (Romans 8:29), attesting that the Human sympathies of the Saviour were co-extensive with human suffering and sorrow. Comp. John 11:33.

Ephphatha The actual Aramaic word used by our Lord, like the "Talitha cumi" of Mark 5:41, treasured up by actual eye and ear witnesses, on whom the actions used and the word spoken made an indelible impression.