Jesus returns from the Sidon and Tyre region and goes back to Galilee. A crowd of people brings a deaf and mute man to him.
Jesus takes the man away from the crowd and does something very interesting. He puts his fingers in the man's ears, spits, and touches the man's tongue. He then says, "be opened" and the man can hear and speak.
The crowd is amazed and they says that Jesus has done everything well, including make the deaf hear and the mute speak.
This may present an explanation why Jesus had to leave Galilee and head to the Canaanite regions. Things had gotten a little hot and desertion was high after the feeding of the five thousand. It seems that the region has become more receptive to what Jesus has to say and do.
Likewise, the healing of the deaf and mute are important because they were activities that Jesus cited to John the Baptist as proof of him as the Messiah. This is further evident in Matthew 15:31, which summarizes the event with many other healing event. The implication here shows that maybe people in the crowd were being more receptive to Jesus as the Messiah, which is a far different situation than the sermon following the feeding of the five thousand.
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