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The Healing of a Mute Person. 32 (A)As they were going out,[a] a demoniac who could not speak was brought to him, 33 and when the demon was driven out the mute person spoke. The crowds were amazed and said, “Nothing like this has ever been seen in Israel.”(B) 34 [b]But the Pharisees said,(C) “He drives out demons by the prince of demons.”

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Footnotes

  1. 9:32–34 The source of this story seems to be Q (see Lk 11:14–15). As in the preceding healing of the blind, Matthew has two versions of this healing, the later in Mt 12:22–24 and the earlier here.
  2. 9:34 This spiteful accusation foreshadows the growing opposition to Jesus in Mt 11 and 12.

32 While they were going out, a man who was demon-possessed(A) and could not talk(B) was brought to Jesus. 33 And when the demon was driven out, the man who had been mute spoke. The crowd was amazed and said, “Nothing like this has ever been seen in Israel.”(C)

34 But the Pharisees said, “It is by the prince of demons that he drives out demons.”(D)

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