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MATTHEW 9:32 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Matt 9:31Matt 9:33
“As they went out, behold, they brought to him a dumb man possessed with a devil.”
As they were going away, behold, a demon-oppressed man who was mute was brought to him. The final healing of the chapter is a mute man — someone who cannot advocate for himself but is brought by others, like the paralytic of verse 2. The muteness is caused by demonic oppression, connecting the physical affliction to the spiritual opposition that Jesus has been engaging throughout chapters 8–9. The brought to him communicates the community's faith: they believe bringing the man to Jesus is the appropriate response to his condition.

Church Fathers on Matthew 9:32

Observe the beautiful order of His miracles; how after He had given sight to the blind, He restored speech to the dumb, and healed the possessed of the daemon; by which He shews Himself the Lord of power, and the author of the heavenly medicine. For it was said by Isaiah, 'Then shall the eyes of the blind be opened, the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped, and the tongue of the dumb loosed.' [Isa 35:6]

Remigius · 9th century

The Greek word here is more frequent in common speech in the sense of, 'deaf,' but it is the manner of Scripture to use it indifferently as either.

Jerome · 4th century

This was not a mere natural defect; but was from the malignity of the daemon; and therefore he needed to be brought of others, for he could not ask any thing of others as living without voice, and the daemon chaining his spirit together with his tongue. Therefore Christ does not require faith of him, but immediately healed his disorder; as it follows, 'And when the daemon was cast out, the dumb spake.'

Chrysostom · 4th century
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