14-26. The dumb Devil. Blasphemy of the Pharisees.

14. it was dumb i.e., of course, the possession by the spirit caused dumbness in the man. If this incident be the same as in Matthew 12:22, the wretched sufferer seems to have been both dumb, and blind, and mad.

the people wondered Exorcisms, and attempted exorcisms (Acts 19:14), were indeed common among the Jews (see on Luke 9:49. Gfrorer, Jahrh. d. Heils, I. 413), but apparently only in the simplest cases, and neverwhen the possession was complicated with blindness and dumbness.

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