George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Matthew 9:32
A dumb man. The Greek rather signifies a deaf man: but these defects generally go together, because he that is deaf cannot learn to speak. (Witham)
A dumb man. The Greek rather signifies a deaf man: but these defects generally go together, because he that is deaf cannot learn to speak. (Witham)
Verse 32. _A DUMB MAN POSSESSED WITH A DEVIL._] Some demons rendered the persons they possessed _paralytic_, some _blind_, others _dumb_, c. It was the interest of Satan to hide his influences under...
AND AS THEY WENT OUT, BEHOLD, THEY BROUGHT UNTO HIM - That is, the friends of the dumb man brought him. This seems to have occurred as soon as the blind men which had been healed left him. Possibly it...
CHAPTER 9 1. A Man Sick of the Palsy Healed. (Matthew 9:1 .) 2. The Call of Matthew (Matthew 9:9 .) 3. With the Publicans and the Sinners. (Matthew 9:10 .) 4. The Question of John's Disciples. ...
A DUMB DEMONIAC HEALED. Mt. only (but _cf_ Luke 11:14); perhaps a doublet of Matthew 12:22 f.* MATTHEW 9:35. A summary of ministry (Mark 6:6
THE GROWTH OF OPPOSITION (Matthew 9:1-34) We have repeatedly seen that in Matthew's gospel there is nothing haphazard. It is carefully planned and carefully designed. In Matthew 9:1-38 we see another...
As they were going away, look you, they brought to him a dumb man who was demon-possessed; and, when the demon had been expelled from him, he spoke. And the crowds were amazed. "Nothing like this, the...
AS THEY WENT. As they were going. POSSESSED WITH. DEVIL. a demoniac....
CURE OF A DUMB MAN POSSESSED BY AN EVIL SPIRIT Luke 11:14-15....
VER 32. AS THEY WENT OUT, BEHOLD, THEY BROUGHT TO HIM A DUMB MAN POSSESSED WITH A DEVIL. 33. AND WHEN THE DEVIL WAS CAST OUT, THE DUMB SPAKE: AND THE MULTITUDES MARVELLED, SAYING, "IT WAS NEVER SO SEE...
_COMPASSION HEALED THE BLIND, MUTE AND CALLED FOR LABORERS MATTHEW 9:27-38:_ The request of the blind men was, "have pity and mercy on us." In compassion Jesus touched their eyes and gave them sight....
ΕΞΕΡΧΌΜΕΝΩΝ _praes. med. (dep.) part. gen. masc. pl. от_ ΈΖΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G1831), _gen. abs._ "когда они ушли..." ΠΡΟΣΉΝΕΓΚΑΝ _aor. ind. act., см._ Matthew 9:2. ΚΩΦΌΝ (G2974) глухой, глухонемой, ΔΑΝΜΟΝΙΖΌ...
A DUMB MAN, &C.— _A dumb demoniac._ Campbell. From the circumstance of the demoniac's being dumb, Erasmus conjectures, that he was also deprived of the use of his reason: if so, being insensible of hi...
SECTION 21 JESUS GIVES SIGHT TO TWO BLIND MEN AND FREES A DUMB DEMONIAC TEXT: 9:27-34 27. And as Jesus passed by from thence, two blind men followed him, crying out, and saying, Have mercy on us,...
As they went out, behold, they brought to him a dumb man possessed with a devil. AS THEY WENT OUT, BEHOLD, THEY BROUGHT TO HIM A DUMB MAN POSSESSED WITH A DEVIL, [ daimonizomenon (G1139)] - 'demon...
14 It is a most difficult lesson for the saints to learn, that God's dealings with His creatures change, and that their conduct should change accordingly, John's disciples thought that the Lord's foll...
THE SICK OF THE PALSY. CALL OF MATTHEW. RAISING OF JAIRUS' DAUGHTER 1-8. The paralytic healed and his sins forgiven (Mark 2:1; Luke 5:17). The peculiarity of this miracle is that it was worked to prov...
A DUMB MAN] The Gk. word may either mean deaf or dumb, or both....
HEALING OF A DUMB MAN (Luke 11:14). This miracle is given by St. Luke in another connexion, and is there followed by a reply by Jesus to the criticisms of the Pharisees....
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 9 3. THE MAN WHO COULD NOT WALK 9:1-8 V1 Then Jesus stepped into a boat. He went back across the lake and arrived at his own town. V...
A DUMB MAN POSSESSED WITH A DEVIL. — This narrative also is given by St. Matthew only. Referring to the Note in the _Excursus_ on Matthew 8:28 for the general question as to “possession,” it may be no...
CHAPTER 8 The Signs of the Kingdom - Matthew 8:1 - Matthew 9:1 REFERRING to Matthew 4:23, we find the work of Christ at the beginning of His ministry summarised as teaching and preaching and healing...
Αὐτῶν ἐξερχομένων : while the two blind men are going out they bring another sufferer to the great Healer; an incessant stream of applicants for aid flowing towards His door. κωφὸν : dumbness the appa...
_The dumb demoniac_ (Luke 11:14). A slight narrative, very meagre in comparison with the story of the Gerasene demoniac, the interest centring in the conflicting comments of spectators which probably...
THE MERCIFUL DELIVERER Matthew 9:27-34 It is thus that the Master speaks to us: _Believe ye_ that I am able to make you happy, though you are cut off from the light and gladness of the world? _Believ...
The King now exercised His authority in a new way. He pronounced pardon on a sinner, and straightway opposition was aroused. To the questioning and rebellious hearts He vindicated His authority to for...
(7) As they went out, behold, they brought to him a dumb man possessed with a devil. (7) An example of that power that Christ has over the devil....
THE DEMONIZED DUMMY HEALED Matthew 9:32-34. “And they, going out [i.e., out of the house where He had healed the two blind men], behold, they brought to Him a dumb man, who had a demon. And the demon...
Let the Reader, as he beholds the succession of miracles, and remarks the woeful effects of sin, from whence all the maladies of the world are derived, contemplate the glory and loveliness of Him who...
Chapter 8, which opens the portion that comes before us tonight, is a striking illustration as well as proof of the method which God has been pleased to employ in giving us the apostle Matthew's accou...
32._They brought to him a dumb man _It is probable that this man was not naturally _dumb, _but that, after he had been given up to the devil, (531) he was deprived of the use of speech: for all _dumb...
In the following chapter (chapter 9), while acting in the character and according to the power of Jehovah (as we read in Psalms 103), "Who forgiveth all thine iniquities, who healeth all thy diseases...
AS THEY WENT OUT,.... The Syriac version reads it, "when Jesus went out"; to which agrees the Arabic, against all the copies: for not he, but the men who had been blind, and now had their sight restor...
As they went out, behold, they brought to him a dumb man possessed with a devil. Ver. 32. _A dumb man possessed with a devil_] Satan still gags many to this day, that they cannot pray to God, profess...
_As they went out_ Namely, the men that had been blind; _behold, they brought to him a dumb man_ Whose dumbness was owing to his being _possessed with a devil._ From the circumstance of this demoniac'...
AS THEY WENT OUT, BEHOLD, THEY BROUGHT TO HIM A DUMB MAN POSSESSED WITH A DEVIL....
The dumb demoniac:...
Returning to His own city, Capernaum, He has brought to Him a man totally helpless, lying on a bed. This case of palsy is indicative of the complete debilitating effects of sin: man is left without st...
32-34 Of the two, better a dumb devil than a blaspheming one. Christ's cures strike at the root, and remove the effect by taking away the cause; they open the lips, by breaking Satan's power in the so...
SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 9:33"....
Matthew 9:32 As G1161 they G846 out G1831 (G5740) behold G2400 (G5628) brought G4374 (G5656) Him...
THE HEALING OF A MAN POSSESSED BY A DUMB (AND DEAF?) SPIRIT (9:32-34). We now come to the final Messianic sign (Matthew 11:5), both of the section from Matthew 8:1, and the threefold series from Matth...
‘And as they went forth, behold, there was brought to him a dumb man possessed with a demon.' A man is brought to Jesus who was dumb as a result of a spirit which possessed him. As we have seen kowph...
WHAT JESUS HAS TO OFFER AND THE GROWTH OF PHARISAIC OPPOSITION (9:10-34). We are now informed about the first open opposition among the Pharisees to Jesus. The Pharisees had seemingly previously appro...
Matthew 9:32. AS THEY WENT FORTH, _i.e.,_ the blind men. This miracle must, therefore, have immediately followed the last. BEHOLD. Another remarkable case, mentioned by Matthew alone. Both he (Matthe...
The four miracles mentioned in this section seem to have occurred in immediate succession. On the way to the house of the ruler, the woman with an issue of blood is cured; the ruler's daughter is rais...
A DUMB MAN (κωφον). Literally blunted in tongue as here and so dumb, in ear as in Matthew 11:5 and so deaf. Homer used it of a blunted dart (_Iliad_ xi. 390). Others applied it to mental dulness....
POSSESSED, DEVIL (Greek, "daimonizomai", "demonized"). (_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 7:22). _...
Matthew 9:27. _And when Jesus departed thence, two blind men followed him, crying, and saying, thou son of David, have mercy on us. And when he was come into the house,_ I suppose the house at Capern...
Matthew 9:1. _And he entered into a ship, and passed over, and came into his own city._ Our Lord had given these Gergesenes an opportunity of becoming his disciples, the kingdom of God had come very...
Matthew 9:18. _While he spake these things unto them, behold, there came a certain ruler, and worshipped him, saying, My daughter is even now dead: but come and lay thy hand upon her, and she shall li...
Matthew 9:27. _And when Jesus departed thence, two blind men followed him, crying, and saying, Thou Son of David, have mercy on us._ No sooner does Jesus move than fresh candidates for his bounty app...
CONTENTS: Healing of the palsied man. Call of Matthew. Answering the Pharisees. Healing of woman with issue of blood. Daughter of a ruler raised from the dead. Two blind men healed. A demon cast out....
Matthew 9:1. _Jesus came into his own city,_ Capernaum, as in Mark. Our Saviour was a stranger on earth, born in Bethlehem, an exile in Egypt, resident at Nazareth, but latterly in Capernaum. Matthew...
32-33. A MAN WHO COULD NOT TALK. Compare (Luke 11:14) Physical and spiritual illness combined. _See note on_ Matthew 8:29. WE NEVER SAW THE LIKE IN ISRAEL. No prophet had ever done such wonders as th...
_And when the devil was cast cut, the dumb spake._ THE DUMB MADE TO SPEAK Jesus had just touched the eyes of the blind; now a dumb man is brought to Hint. Speech the special gift and privilege of ma...
CHAPTER 9 _Passed over_ : that is, sailed across the sea of Galilee, to its western side. _And came into his own city._ Sedulius thinks Bethlehem is meant because he was born there. S. Jerome, with mo...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 9:33 MARVELLED.—This miracle produced a great impression. Why so, we may easily understand. The Jewish Rabbis and teachers practised exorcism. They professed to cast out evil...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 9:1 _The_ _paralytic forgiven and healed. _Parallel passages: Mark 2:1; Luke 5:17. (For connexion of thought, cf....
And so he entered into a ship, and he passed over, and he came to his own city (Matthew 9:1). His own city being Capernaum. I told you that was his headquarters. And, behold, they brought to him a ma...
Luke 11:14; Mark 9:17; Matthew 12:22; Matthew 12:23...
Dumb [κ ω φ ο ν]. The word is also used of deafness (Matthew 11:5; Mark 7:32; Luke 7:22). It means dull or blunted. Thus Homer applies it to the earth; the dull, senseless earth (" Iliad, "24 25). Als...
Luke 11:14....
Still our Lord goes about doing good; before, he healed the diseased, here he helps the possessed. Learn, 1. That amongst the many calamities which sin has rendered human nature liable and obnoxious...