<p>12:22&nbsp;<em>Then was brought to him one</em>- The Greek is used about bring an offering. We recall how the conversion of individuals is spoken as offering them as a sacrifice in Rom. 15:16. Bringing people to the Lord is offering them to Him because they are to present themselves, or be presented, as living sacrifices in His service (Rom. 12:1). There may therefore be a connection with the use later in this verse of&nbsp;<em>thereapeuo</em>&nbsp;for &quot;healed&quot;, as this word is also translated &quot;worship&quot; in the sense of Divine worship. The Lord had just cured large numbers of people, but then withdrew from them. Now they find Him again and bring just one sick person for healing. The people were &quot;amazed&quot; (:23) at this one healing- whereas the Lord had healed many sick people in :15. We are left with the impression of how deeply &quot;amazed&quot; the crowds must have been, if there was so much amazement at just one cure, there must have been super amazement at the mass healings.</p>
<p><em>Possessed with a demon, blind and dumb, and he healed him, so much so that the dumb man spoke and saw-</em>&nbsp;The Greek strictly means to be exercised or controlled by a demon. This is the language used at the time for explaining medical situations which today we would diagnose differently. Blindness and deafness are explicable in medical terms. The verse states that the Lord 'healed' the man and therefore, because of that healing, the blindness and deafness left him. The language of healing of persons is not what we would expect if the Lord instead engaged in battle with demonic entities in Heaven or at least, outside of the man.</p>