Luke 11:14

ἦν ἐκβάλλων. The continuous analytic imperfect perhaps implies that this was like some of those later miracles of Christ in which the result was not instantly accomplished.

αὐτὸ ἦν κωφόν. i.e., of course, the possession by the spirit caused dumbness in the man, comp. Mark 9:17. If this incident be the same as in Matthew 12:22, the wretched sufferer seems to have been both dumb, and blind, and mad.

ἐγένετο … ἐλάλησεν. The construction shews an Aramaic document. See on Luke 1:5; Luke 1:8-9.

ἐθαύμασαν οἱ ὄχλοι. Exorcisms, and attempted exorcisms (Acts 19:14), were indeed common among the Jews (see on Luke 9:49. Gfrörer, Jahrh. d. Heils, I. 413), but apparently only in the simplest cases, and never when the possession was complicated with blindness and dumbness.