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 his own misery, he had as little inclination as ability to apply for a cure. He could not even make his misery known by signs, and therefore needed to be brought to the Saviour by others; but being cured, he spoke both rationally and fluently, to the astonishment of all who heard him; insomuch that they extolled the author of the miracle above all the prophets that had ever appeared: "It was never so seen even in Israel itself, said they,—though it be a people among whom God hath wrought such unparalleled wonders." This reflection was perfectly just; for no one of the prophets whom we read of in the Old Testament appears to have wrought so many beneficial miracles in his whole life as our Lord did in this one afternoon; when he raised the daughter of Jairus from the dead, healed the woman who had a bloody issue, restored two blind men to their sight, cured a dumb demoniac, &c. &c. See on ch. Matthew 15:29-31 and, respecting the calumnies of the Pharisees in the next verse, ch. Matthew 12:24.
Related Commentaries of Matthew 9:32
Matthew 9:32-33
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 seen in Israel.