Mark 1:23 BSB — MannaFest

Mark 1:23

Suddenly a man with an unclean spirit cried out in the synagogue:

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ASV

And straightway there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; and he cried out,

KJV

And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; and he cried out,

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Commentary

4 voices

Bede

On the Gospel of Mark (735)

And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit, etc. This is not a confession of the will, which follows the reward of confessing, but an extortion of necessity, which compels the guilty to confess. And just as if runaway slaves, after …

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The Nineteenth Century3 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

A man with an unclean spirit - This demoniac is only mentioned by Mark and Luke, Luk 4:33. It seems the man had lucid intervals; else he could not have been admitted into the synagogue. Unclean or impure spirit - a common epithet for those fallen spirits: but here it may mean, one who filled the heart of him he possessed with Lascivious thoughts, images, desires, and propensities. By giving way to the first attacks of such a spirit, he may soon get in, and take full possession of the whole soul.

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Mark (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition) (1857)

These verses begin the long list of miracles which Mark's Gospel contains. They tell us how our Lord cast out devils in Capernaum, and healed Peter's wife's mother of a fever. We learn, in the first place, from these verses, the uselessness of a mere intellectual knowledge of religion . Twice we are specially told that the unclean spirits know our Lord. In one place it says, "they knew Him." to another, the devil cries out, "I know you who you are, the Holy One of God."

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit--literally, "in an unclean spirit"--that is, so entirely under demoniacal power that his personality was sunk for the time in that of the spirit. The frequency with which this character of "impurity" is ascribed to evil spirits--some twenty times in the Gospels--is not to be overlooked. and he cried out--as follows:

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Καὶ	Kai	And	G2532 →
εὐθὺς	euthus	immediately	G2112 →
ἦν	ēn	there was	G1510 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
τῇ	tēa	the	G3588 →
συναγωγῇ	sunagōgēa	synagogue	G4864 →
αὐτῶν	autōn	of them	G846 →
ἄνθρωπος	anthrōpos	a man	G444 →
ἐν	en	with	G1722 →
πνεύματι	pneumati	a spirit	G4151 →
ἀκαθάρτῳ	akathartō	unclean	G169 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ἀνέκραξεν	anekraxen	he cried out	G349 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Mark 1:34
And He healed many who were ill with various diseases and drove out many demons. But He would not allow the demons to speak, because they knew who He was.
leads to
- Luke 4:41
  Demons also came out of many people, shouting, “You are the Son of God!” But He rebuked the demons and would not allow them to speak, because they knew He was the Christ.
- Mark 3:12
  But He warned them sternly not to make Him known.
Through
Mark 9:25
When Jesus saw that a crowd had come running, He rebuked the unclean spirit. “You deaf and mute spirit,” He said, “I command you to come out and never enter him again.”
leads to
- Luke 9:42
  Even while the boy was approaching, the demon slammed him to the ground in a convulsion. But Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, healed the boy, and gave him back to his father.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Acts 16:18
  She continued this for many days. Eventually Paul grew so aggravated that he turned and said to the spirit, “In the name of Jesus Christ I command you to come out of her!” And…
- Mark 9:15
  As soon as all the people saw Jesus, they were filled with awe and ran to greet Him.
Through
Mark 7:25
Instead, a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit soon heard about Jesus, and she came and fell at His feet.
leads to
- Matthew 15:22
  And a Canaanite woman from that region came to Him, crying out, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me! My daughter is miserably possessed by a demon.”
Through
Mark 5:2
As soon as Jesus got out of the boat, He was met by a man with an unclean spirit, who was coming from the tombs.
leads to
- Mark 5:8
  For Jesus had already declared, “Come out of this man, you unclean spirit!”
- Isaiah 65:4
  sitting among the graves, spending nights in secret places, eating the meat of pigs and polluted broth from their bowls.

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Where the connections lead

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The walk

Related verses

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About Mark