When they came back to the other disciples, they saw a large crowd around them and the teachers of the law arguing with them — the descent from the transfiguration mountain to the scene of the failed exorcism is the Gospel's sharpest contrast: from the glory of the mountain to the failure and confusion of the valley. The teachers of the law arguing with the disciples communicates that the disciples' failure to exorcise the boy has become a public controversy — the religious establishment has arrived and is making the most of the disciples' inability.

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