10 Oct. 1815

Jug. True

Ch. 71 Blind and dumb Devil

Time per omnes hos[?] unparticularized: reported Luke XI. 14 next after the conversation about the one thing needful in Martha’s house Luke X 38

Place at or near Jerusalem as appears by the antecedent conversations with the Pharisees &c. without any intervening report of migration

Contradiction – Per Luke a devil cast out and he only dumb. Per Matt. a man healed who being possessed by a devil was blind and dumb

Then in both occurs the conversation as per next chapter of this

In Mark the conversation but without mention of the miracle.

Immediately before the conversation in Mark instead of the account of the miracle it is said ‘his friends … went out to lay hold on him for they said he is beside himself

Contradictory as the accounts are the incident must be one and the same: the conversation being so exactly the same. It can not be that on occasion there was a dumb devil cast out, on another a blind and dumb man whose blindness and dumbness were caused by his being possessed by the devil cured by the casting out of the devil, and on a third occasion this same conversation held without any miracle to introduce it. Mark had he never heard of the miracle in either shape? did he not give credit to it? or did he regard it as not worth mentioning?

Ch. 71.

Near Jerusalem a dumb devil cast out, or a man who, being possessed by a devil, was blind and dumb, healed.

Luke XI. 14. Matt. XII. 22. Mark silent. John silent.