To be MOONSTRUCK — from selēnē, the moon: afflicted, as antiquity supposed, by its phases, which is how the ancient world explained the falling sickness. ⚠ The KJV reads 'those which were LUNATICK', the same idea carried by Latin luna; the NIV and NWT modernize to 'those having seizures' / 'epileptics'. This translation keeps 'moonstruck' — it is what the word says, and it leaves the reader inside the explanation the text was written with instead of quietly substituting ours. Note that Matthew 4:24 lists 'demon-possessed and moonstruck and paralysed' as three separate categories; he is not equating them. → first discussed at Matt 4:24