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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.

14 He was driving out a demon [that was] mute, and when the demon had gone out, the mute person spoke and the crowds were amazed. 15 Some of them said, “By the power of Beelzebul, the prince of demons, he drives out demons.”(A)

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