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MATTHEW 12:23 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Matt 12:22Matt 12:24
“And all the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the son of David?”
And all the people were amazed, and said: can this be the Son of David? The crowd's messianic question — can this be the Son of David? — is the question that the healing prompts. The Son of David title is the distinctively Matthean messianic designation: Matthew's Gospel alone records that the blind men of Jericho call Jesus Son of David (Matthew 20:30–31). The crowd's question is open and wondering; the Pharisees' response is closed and accusatory.

Church Fathers on Matthew 12:23

The Lord had refuted the Pharisees above, when they brought false charges against the miracles of Christ, as if He had broken the sabbath in doing them. But inasmuch as with a yet greater wickedness they perversely attributed the miracles of Christ done by divine power to an unclean spirit, therefore the Evangelist places first the miracle from which they had taken occasion to blaspheme, saying, 'Then was brought to him one that had a daemon, blind and dumb.'

Gloss (Glossa Ordinaria) · medieval compilation · non occ.

The word 'Then' refers to that above, where having healed the man who had the withered hand, He went out of the synagogue. Or it may be taken of a more extended time; Then, namely, when these things were being done or said.

Remigius · 9th century

We may wonder at the wickedness of the daemon; he had obstructed both inlets by which he could believe, namely, hearing and sight. But Christ opened both, whence it follows, 'And he healed him, insomuch that the blind and dumb both spake and saw.'

Chrysostom · 4th century
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