New Revised Standard Version
He took him aside in private, away from the crowd, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spat and touched his tongue.

Contemporary English Version
After Jesus had taken him aside from the crowd, he stuck his fingers in the man's ears. Then he spit and put it on the man's tongue.

New American Bible
He took him off by himself away from the crowd. He put his finger into the man’s ears and, spitting, touched his tongue;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And taking him from the multitude apart, he put his fingers into his ears: and spitting, he touched his tongue.

And taking him from the multitude apart, he put his fingers into his ears: and spitting, he touched his tongue.

he took.

Mark 5:40 And they laughed him to scorn. But he having put them all out, taketh the father and the mother of the damsel, and them that were with him, and entereth in where the damsel was lying.

Mark 8:23 And taking the blind man by the hand, he led him out of the town. And spitting upon his eyes, laying his hands on him, he asked him if he saw any thing.

1 Kings 17:19-22 And Elias said to her: Give me thy son. And he took him out of her bosom, and carried him into the upper chamber where he abode, and laid him upon his own bed. . . .

2 Kings 4:4-6,33,34 And go in, and shut thy door, when thou art within, and thy sons: and pour out thereof into all those vessels: and when they are full, take them away. . . .

John 9:6,7 When he had said these things, he spat on the ground and made clay of the spittle and spread the clay upon his eyes, . . .

put.