The Lord gives critical lessons about His identity, His mission and our relationship to these things. Satan tried to immediately corrupt these lessons but the Lord shut him down, leaving His disciples to consider it.

Religious teachers demanded a sign but Christ refused; using metaphor, He warned His disciples about them but they missed the point, which He did not ignore. Later, by unusual methods, He healed a blind man.

Still in Gentile territory, many came to Him for healings. After three days He sent them home, but having no food, He feed over four thousand from a few pieces of bread and fish. Leaving there, He faced Pharisees.

Unseen benefits are found in the methods of our Lord’s delivering a little girl from demons, developing her mother’s faith as well as the bystanders. Likewise with His healing the deaf mute by seemingly odd means

Having preformed countless miracles and given the most superior teachings about God in the history of mankind, fault finding religious authorities came from Jerusalem to nitpick, Christ did not stand for it.