κατεγέλων : this the point of the story for the evangelist, thinks Weiss, hence related after the demoniac common link, the unbelief of the people. But surely in this case in credulity was very excusable! τὸν παρέρα, etc.: father, mother, and the three disciples taken into the sick chamber, the former as parents, the latter as witnesses.

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