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.”
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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.”
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And the sprete cryed and rent him sore and came out: And he was as one that had bene deed in so moche that many sayde he is deed.
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Then the spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out, and he was as one dead, in so much that many said, He is dead.
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Passages linked to Mark 9:26 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 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.
- Mark 1:26 The unclean spirit, convulsing him and crying with a loud voice, came out of him.
- Exodus 5:23 For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has brought trouble on this people. You have not rescued your people at all!”
- Mark 9:18 and wherever it seizes him, it throws him down, and he foams at the mouth, and grinds his teeth, and wastes away. I asked your disciples to cast it out, and they weren’t able.”
- Revelation 12:12 Therefore rejoice, heavens, and you who dwell in them. Woe to the earth and to the sea, because the devil has gone down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has but a short time.”
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain The nearer that the virtue of Christ is, the…
The nearer that the virtue of Christ is, the more outrageously doth Satan rage.
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.
John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 26 And the spirit cried, and rent him sore,…
26 And the spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out of him: and he was as one dead; insomuch that many said, He is dead.
Ver. 26. And rent him sore] The nearer any is to help and comfort, the more Satan roareth and rageth.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And the spirit cried, and rent him sore,.... We…
And the spirit cried, and rent him sore,.... We rightly supply, "the spirit", as do the Syriac and Persic versions, "the demon"; for it was he, and not the child, that cried, and made an hideous noise, at his ejection; being filled with wrath and rage, that he must be obliged to quit the possession he had so long held; and therefore, in spite and malice, before it left him, shook and tore him, and threw him into dreadful convulsions:
and came out of him; though sore against his will, being obliged to it, by the superior power of Christ:
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and he was as one dead: that is, the child, when the devil had left him, lay as still as if he had no breath, nor life in him:
insomuch that many said, he is dead; really dead: that there was no life in him, nor any hopes of his coming to himself again.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Having rent him sore - So does even the…
Having rent him sore - So does even the body sometimes suffer, when God comes to deliver the soul from Satan.
John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain This person, whom the apostles had forbidden to work…
This person, whom the apostles had forbidden to work miracles in the name of Christ, believed indeed in Christ, but did not follow him, on account of the great poverty of the apostles: he was not perfect, nor had he left all things to follow Christ. The apostles therefore concluded, that such a one was not worthy to work miracles in the name of their divine Master. But for this indiscretion, Christ rebukes them, saying , do not, &c. (Tirinus)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 26. Rent him — Wrenched him around the space,…
26. Rent him — Wrenched him around the space, as if struggling in the act of throwing the child off from his position. As one dead — Not only prostrated by the convulsions, but left in complete exhaustion and apparent lifelessness.
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 26. and rent him sore] Observe here the minuteness…
26. and rent him sore] Observe here the minuteness and exactness of the Evangelist in all the details of the incident. Who was more likely to treasure up every detail of the scene than that Apostle, who had been with His Master on the Mount of Glorification?
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (26) Rent him sore.—The verb is the same as…
(26) Rent him sore.—The verb is the same as the “tare him” of Mar_9:20, and implies a spasm, as of horror, convulsing the whole frame. The corpse-like falling as one dead, and the cry of many (better, “the many”—i.e., “the greater part, most of them”) that he was dead, and our Lord’s taking the boy by the hand, and the question of the disciples, are all peculiar to St, Mark.
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B. W. Johnson 1891 · Public Domain 26. The spirit cried and rent him sore. The…
26. The spirit cried and rent him sore. The evil spirit obeys most reluctantly and seeks to destroy one whom it can no longer use. The paroxysm of departure was fearful, and left the boy exhausted and as dead. The touch of Jesus completed the cure.
B. W. Johnson's The People's New Testament with Notes (1889–1891) — public domain. Electronic text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library (CCEL) ThML edition.
unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 It cried out
It cried out
"The unclean spirit cried out"
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convulsed the boy greatly
"shook the boy violently"
came out
It is implied that the spirit came out of the boy. AT: "came out of the boy" (See: Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information)
The boy looked like one who was dead
The boy's appearance is compared to that of a dead person. AT: "The boy appeared dead" or "The boy looked like a dead person" (See: Simile)
so that many
"so that many people"
took him by the hand
This means that Jesus grasped the boy's hand with his own hand. AT: "grasped the boy by the hand" (See: Idiom)
lifted him up
"helped him get up"
translationWords
cry
like
die
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 9:26-27 The demon’s violent reaction revealed its strength and…
9:26-27 The demon’s violent reaction revealed its strength and showed Jesus’ greatness (cp. 1:25-26; 5:15).
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