The cure. ἐπισυντρέχει (ἅπ. λεγ.) indicates that the crowd was constantly increasing, so becoming a new crowd (ὄχλος without art.); natural in the circumstances. Jesus seeing this proceeds to cure without further delay. The spirit is now described as unclean and, with reference to the boy's symptoms, both dumb and deaf. μηκέτι εἰσέλθῃς, enter not again. This was the essential point in a case of intermittent possession. The spirit went out at the end of each attack, but returned again.

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Old Testament