Mark 7:33

Mark 7:33. Took him aside from the multitude apart (or, ‘by himself'). This may have been in consequence of some peculiarity in the man himself, or in the spectators. The people of that district (see Matthew 15:30-31) were probably rude and more or less under heathen influence. The peculiar manner of the miracle was not occasioned by the difficulty of the case. The design seems to have been, still to connect the miraculous effect with His own person, yet to show that He was not bound to one mode. It is not necessary to find a symbolical meaning in each act

And he spat and touched his tongue. Probably moistening His finger with saliva, He touched his tongue. The two parts affected by disease were touched, to show that our Lord could choose His own mode. We may, however, regard the miracle as a literal fulfilment of Isaiah 35:5. ‘Then shall the ears of the deaf be unstopped,' etc.