Charles Ellicott Commentary Mark 7:33

"And he took him aside from the multitude privately, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spat, and touched his tongue;" — Mark 7:33 (ASV)

He took him aside from the multitude.—We trace in this, and in the manual acts that followed, the same tender considerateness for the infirmities of the sufferer as in our Lord’s treatment of the blind (See Note on Matthew 9:29). Here the man could not find in the pitying tones of the Healer's voice that on which his faith could fasten, and the act came in to fill up the void.