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And they brought to him a man who was deaf
and had a speech impediment, 
and they begged him to lay his hand on him.
And taking him aside from the crowd privately...
Mark 7:32-33 ESV
Wherever Jesus went the news traveled and there were people.
And there was this man's crew.
Deaf
Unable to speak clearly.
The reasonable assumption is deaf from birth or from a young age 
Jesus takes him aside privately. Why is that?
There's nothing to stop a deaf person finding Jesus on his own yet his team brought him. Were they more enthusiastic about this than the man was? If he had been deaf his whole life maybe he was OK with it. 
It was who he was.
The deaf guy.
And change was scary
If you don't know what not being deaf is like.
Maybe he understood the man needed the one on one attention.
Some privacy.
Maybe Jesus didn't want the first thing that this man was going to hear to be the noise of crowds of people, but his voice?
For the man who only knew quiet, he wanted to gently introduce him to the world of noise...Jesus heart was for him.
#lovepeople
#lovelikeJesus
#gospelofmark

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