“And when the devil was cast out, the dumb spake: and the multitudes marvelled, saying, It was never so seen in Israel.”
And when the demon had been cast out, the mute man spoke. And the crowds marveled, saying, Never was anything like this seen in Israel. The exorcism that enables speech produces the crowds' declaration: nothing like this has ever been seen in Israel. The cumulative effect of the healings of chapters 8–9 is this crowd response: the comprehensive and unprecedented character of what Jesus is doing is recognized as beyond anything in Israel's experience. Isaiah 35:6 promised that the tongue of the mute would shout for joy in the age of salvation — the mute who now speaks is the sign that Isaiah's age has arrived.
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