After Jesus cast a devil out of a man in Matthew 12, the people reacted in one of 2 ways. Some thought he was the Son of David (Ie: he was the messiah king they were looking for), and some thought that he was deceiving the masses by healing, working miracles, and casting out devils. They even went so far as to say that Jesus was casting out devils by the prince of devils.
Jesus argued with this second group by telling them that it would be absurd for Satan to fight his himself. He told them that he was taking territory from Satan because Satan had been already been bound.
Nobody doubted that Jesus was working amazing miracles, in fact, everybody assumed that Jesus was healing and working miracles; there was no doubt about that. There was doubt, however, about what those miracles meant and where they came from. This is unlike healers of today whose miracles are questioned and usually found wanting. Even Jesus' enemies believed he was working miracles.
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