Could not answer again (ouk isxusan antapokriqhnai). Did not have strength to answer back or in turn (anti-) as in Romans 9:20. They could not take up the argument and were helpless. They hated to admit that they cared more for an ox or ass or even a son than for this poor dropsical man.
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