Mark 9:17. One of the multitude. The scribes were silent, but the person most deeply interested answers. The subject of dispute was connected with the cure of the lunatic boy. The scribes feared to repeat their objections, lest our Lord should convict them in the presence of the multitude by working a miraculous cure. The hostility to our Lord was always cowardly!

I brought. He actually brought his son, expecting to find Christ, to thee, not knowing of His absence. It was his only son (Luke 9:38.)

A dumb spirit. A spirit causing the boy to be speechless; not that the demon was a silent one.

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