Matthew 12:22

Then was brought unto Him. one possessed with a devil, blind, and dumb; and He healed him, insomuch that the blind and dumb both spake and saw.

This narrative fittingly illustrates the gradual growth of opposition, hatred, enmity, malice, and calumny on the part of the Pharisees. A man was brought to Christ whom the Evil Spirit had deprived of both sight and speech, thus torturing him by the loss of these senses.