Charles Ellicott Commentary Mark 7:34

"and looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened." — Mark 7:34 (ASV)

Looking up to heaven, he sighed.—The look, it is clear, implied prayer, as in John 11:41. The “sigh,” too, has its counterpart in the “groans” and “tears” of John 11:33, John 11:35, and John 11:38, and finds its analogue in the sadness of sympathy which we feel at the sight of suffering, even when we know that we have the power to remove its cause.

Ephphatha.—Another instance of St. Mark’s reproduction of the very syllables uttered by our Lord. (See Introduction, and Note on Mark 5:41.)