SEV Biblia, Chapter 12:22
¶ Entonces fue traído a l un endemoniado, ciego y mudo, y le san; de tal manera, que el ciego y mudo hablaba y veía.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Matthew 12:22
Verse 22. One possessed with a devil, blind and dumb] A person from whom the indwelling demon took away both sight and hearing. Satan makes himself master of the heart, the eyes, and the tongue of the sinner. His heart he fills with the love of sin; his eyes he blinds that he may not see his guilt, and the perdition which awaits him; and his tongue he hinders from prayer and supplication, though he gives it increasing liberty in blasphemies, lies, slanders, &c. None but Jesus can redeem from this threefold captivity.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 22. Then was brought unto him one possessed with a devil , etc.] About this time, or some little time after, when he was returned from the sea of Galilee, and was come into a certain house; (see Mark 3:19 Matthew 12:46,13:1) some persons brought him a demoniac, in compassion to the possessed man, and being persuaded of the power of Christ to heal him by the late cures he had performed. A like instance we have in ( Matthew 9:32,33,34; Luke 11:14,15), which had a like effect upon the people, and cavilled at by the Pharisees in much the same way; and which cavils were answered in much the same words; and yet the case is not the same; for that man was only dumb, but this both blind and dumb ; not by birth, or through the defect of nature, or by any natural distemper that had attended him, but through the malice of Satan, by divine permission; his blindness, and dumbness, were the effects of his being possessed with a devil, who had deprived him of his sight, and speech. The word rendered dumb, signifies both deaf and dumb, and answers to the Hebrew word rj , which sometimes is used of a deaf man only, who can speak, but not hear; and often of one that can neither speak, nor hear; which is the case of such as are born deaf: it seems as if this man could hear, though he could not speak; since no mention is made of his want of hearing, or of Christs restoring it to him; for it follows, and he healed him, insomuch that the blind and dumb, both spake and saw . This he did, not by making use of medicines, but by a word speaking, dispossessing Satan; so that the cause of blindness and dumbness being removed, the effects ceased, and the man was restored to his sight, and speech, as before. He had his sight to behold his Saviour, and a tongue to praise his name: so when men are turned from Satan unto God, and are delivered from his thraldom and bondage, they are brought into marvellous light, and put into a capacity of showing forth the praises of God.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 22-30 - A soul under Satan's power, and led captive by him, is blind in the things of God, and dumb at the throne of grace; sees nothing, and say nothing to the purpose. Satan blinds the eyes by unbelief, and seals u the lips from prayer. The more people magnified Christ, the mor desirous the Pharisees were to vilify him. It was evident that if Sata aided Jesus in casting out devils, the kingdom of hell was divide against itself; how then could it stand! And if they said that Jesu cast out devils by the prince of the devils, they could not prove tha their children cast them out by any other power. There are two grea interests in the world; and when unclean spirits are cast out by the Holy Spirit, in the conversion of sinners to a life of faith an obedience, the kingdom of God is come unto us. All who do not aid of rejoice in such a change are against Christ.
Greek Textus Receptus
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