The unclean spirit, convulsing him and crying with a loud voice, came out of him.
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The unclean spirit, convulsing him and crying with a loud voice, came out of him.
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And the vnclene spirite tare him and cryed with a loude voyce and came out of him.
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And the vncleane spirit tare him, and cried with a loude voyce, and came out of him.
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Passages linked to Mark 1:26 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Mark 9:26 After crying out and convulsing him greatly, it came out of him. The boy became like one dead, so much that most of them said, “He is dead.”
- Mark 9:20 They brought him to him, and when he saw him, immediately the spirit convulsed him, and he fell on the ground, wallowing and foaming at the mouth.
- Luke 9:39 Behold, a spirit takes him, he suddenly cries out, and it convulses him so that he foams, and it hardly departs from him, bruising him severely.
- Luke 9:42 While he was still coming, the demon threw him down and convulsed him violently. But Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, healed the boy, and gave him back to his father.
- Luke 11:22 But when someone stronger attacks him and overcomes him, he takes from him his whole armor in which he trusted, and divides his plunder.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain See also Mark 9:20.
See also Mark 9:20.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 26 And when the unclean spirit had torn him,…
26 And when the unclean spirit had torn him, and cried with a loud voice, he came out of him.
Ver. 26. And when the unclean spirit had torn him] So he will serve all that he is now at one with, as Bradford hath it. You are the devil’s birds (saith he to all wicked ones), whom, when he hath well fed, he will broach you, and eat you, chew you, and champ you, world without end, in eternal woe and misery.
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And cried with a loud voice] But said nothing, according to Mar 1:25.
He came out of him] With as ill a will goes the worldling’s soul out of his body. God tears it out, as Job somewhere hath it; death makes forcible entry, Job 27:8.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And when the unclean spirit had torn him,.... Not…
And when the unclean spirit had torn him,.... Not that he had torn any limb from him, or had made any wound in any part of his body; for Luke says, Luk 4:35, that he "hurt him not", but he shook him; and as Luke there says, "threw him in the midst", of the people, or synagogue; and so the Syriac, Persic, and Ethiopic versions read here, "he cast him", or "threw him to the ground": he threw him into convulsions, and laid him prostrate on the floor:
and cried with a loud voice, he came out of him; though sorely, against his will, as his loud cry showed, and being obliged to it by a superior power.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain A loud noise - For he was forbidden to…
A loud noise - For he was forbidden to speak. Christ would neither suffer those evil spirits to speak in opposition, nor yet in favour of him. He needed not their testimony, nor would encourage it, lest any should infer that he acted in concert with them.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 26. And when the unclean spirit had torn…
Verse 26. And when the unclean spirit had torn him] And had thrown him down in the midst, Lu 4:35, και σπαραξαν, and convulsed him. Never was there a person possessed by an unclean spirit who did not suffer a convulsion, perhaps a total ruin of nature by it. Sins of uncleanness, as the apostle intimates, are against the body; they sap the foundation of life, so that there are very few of this class, whether male or female, that live out half their days: they generally die martyrs to their lusts. When the propensities of the flesh are most violent in a person who is determined to serve God, it is often a proof that these are the last efforts of the impure spirit, who has great rages because he knows his time is but short.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Tearing him: not that the devil tore the poor…
Tearing him: not that the devil tore the poor man’s limbs or body; for St. Luke (iv. 35.) expressly tells us, that the devil hurt him not. It means no more, than that he shook him with violent agitations. (Witham)
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain And when the unclean spirit had torn him--Luke (Luk…
And when the unclean spirit had torn him--Luke (Luk 4:35) says, "When he had thrown him in the midst." Malignant cruelty--just showing what he would have done, if permitted to go farther: it was a last fling!
and cried with a loud voice--the voice of enforced submission and despair.
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he came out of him--Luke (Luk 4:35) adds, "and hurt him not." Thus impotent were the malignity and rage of the impure spirit when under the restraint of "the Stronger than the strong one armed" (Luk 11:21-22).
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 26. Had torn him — Rather, had convulsed him.…
26. Had torn him — Rather, had convulsed him. Luke says he left the man without doing him any permanent injury. Cried with a loud voice — In this respect he hardly disobeyed the command to hold his peace; for he did not speak any more or utter any further testimony to the divinity of Jesus. But with a cry of despair, rage, and fear, he surrenders his place and departs.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 26. had torn him] i. e. thrown him into…
26. had torn him] i. e. thrown him into strong convulsions, and according to St Luke’s account, into the midst (Luk_4:35), comp. Mar_9:26. The first miracle recorded by St Matt. is the healing of a leper by a touch (Mat_8:1-4); the first miracle which St John records is the changing water into wine (Joh_2:1-11); the first miracle recorded by St Mark and St Luke (Luk_4:33-37) is this casting out of a demon in the synagogue of Capernaum.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (26) He came out of him.—St. Luke adds the…
(26) He came out of him.—St. Luke adds the fact “and hurt him not.”
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain And when the unclean spirit had torn him; and…
And when the unclean spirit had torn him; and cried with a loud voice, he came out of him (kai sparaxan auton). The Greek word sparassw may be rendered in the passive to be convulsed. It is so used by medical writers, as Galen. It could hardly here mean physically "laceration," for St. Luke (Luk_4:35) is careful to say that "when the devil had thrown him down in the midst, he came out of him, having done him no hurt." At all events, the expression indicates the close union of the evil spirit with the possessed man"s consciousness and with his physical frame. And the manner in which he departed showed his malignity, as though, being compelled by the supreme authority of Christ to leave the man, he would injure him as far as he was able to do so. But the power of Christ prevented him from doing any real injury. And all this was done
(1) that there might be clear evidence that the man was actually possessed by the evil spirit;
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(2) that the anger and malice of the evil spirit might be shown; and
(3) that it might be manifest that the unclean spirit came out, not of his own accord, but constrained and vanquished by Christ. We may observe also that the power of Christ restrained him from the use of any articulate words. While he was in possession he used the possessed man"s organs of speech; but when he came out there was no articulate speech it was nothing but a cry.
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B. W. Johnson 1891 · Public Domain 26. He came out of him. At the command.…
26. He came out of him. At the command. The whole account shows that there was a real possession by an evil spirit.
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 1:26 The screams and convulsions caused by the evil…
1:26 The screams and convulsions caused by the evil (literally unclean; also in 1:27) spirit were its parting cries of defeat (5:13; 9:26; cp. 15:37).
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