Mark 9:26
in Mark 9After shrieking and convulsing him violently, the spirit came out. The boy became like a corpse, so that many said, “He is dead.”
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And having cried out, and torn him much, he came out: and the boy became as one dead; insomuch that the more part said, He is dead.
KJV
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.
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This verse in Mark 9
Commentary
11 notes on this verse(Mor. x. 30) But he who is freed from the power of the evil spirit is thought to be dead; for whosoever has already subdued earthly desires, puts to death within himself his carnal mode of life, and appears to the world as a dead man, and many look upon him as dead; for they who know not how to live after the Spirit, think that he who does not follow after carnal pleasures is altogether dead.
This site's exposition
You deaf and mute spirit
on Mark 9:25-27
The departure was as violent as the possession, and the boy became like a corpse, so that many said he was dead. But Jesus took him by the hand and helped him to his feet, the gesture Mark records when Jesus raised Jairus's daughter.
This site's exposition
The boy became like a corpse
Jamieson, Fausset and Brown note that once the faith Christ asked for was found, the evil spirit could not prevail. Gregory the Dialogist gives the stillness a spiritual sense. Whoever is freed from evil's power has put his carnal way of life to death.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
(Vict. Ant. e Cat. in Marc.) 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. For the devil was not able to inflict death upon him, because the true Life was come.
The Medieval Church3 voices
And crying out and greatly convulsing him, it came out of him. The unclean spirit, about to depart from the man, convulses him, and terrifies the onlookers with a frantic cry. For often the devil, while being expelled from the heart, generates sharper temptations in …
(ubi sup.) For oftentimes when we try to turn to God after sin, our old enemy attacks us with new and greater snares, which he does, either to instil into us a hatred of virtue, or to avenge the injury of his expulsion.
Moreover, He rebuked the spirit upon seeing the crowd gathering toward Him — again because He did not wish to heal before a multitude of people, for the display of His power and for His own glory. And by the rebuke and the words, "Come …
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
And the spirit cried, and rent him sore,....
3 more voices on this verse
The Nineteenth Century3 voices
A commentator
J.C. Ryle1816–1900
Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Mark (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition) (1857)
The contrast between these verses and those which precede them in the chapter is very striking. We pass from the mount of transfiguration to a melancholy history of the work of the devil. We come down from the vision of glory — to a conflict with Satanic possession. We change the blessed company of Moses and Elijah — for crude interaction with unbelieving Scribes.
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
But the Lord of life was there; the Healer of all maladies, the Friend of sinners, the Seed of the woman, "the Stronger than the strong man armed," was there. The very faith which Christ declared to be enough for everything being now found, it was not possible that the serpent should prevail.
A commentator
J.C. Ryle1816–1900
Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Mark (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition) (1857)
proposed
The contrast between these verses and those which precede them in the chapter is very striking. We pass from the mount of transfiguration to a melancholy history of the work of the devil. We come down from the vision of glory — to a conflict with Satanic possession. We change the blessed company of Moses and Elijah — for crude interaction with unbelieving Scribes. We leave the foretaste of millennial glory, and the solemn voice of God the Father testifying to God the Son, and return once more to a scene of pain, weakness, and misery — a boy in agony of body, a father in deep distress, and a little band of feeble disciples restrained by Satan's power, and unable to give relief. The contrast, we must all feel, is very great. Yet it is but a faint emblem of the change of scene that Jesus voluntarily undertook to witness, when He first laid aside His glory and came into the world. And it is after all a vivid picture of the life of all true Christians. With them, as with their Master, work, conflict, and scenes of weakness and sorrow will always be the rule. With them too, visions of glory, foretastes of heaven, seasons on the mount, will always be the exception. Let us learn from these verses, how dependent Christ's disciples are on the company and help of their Master . We see this truth brought out in a striking manner in the scene which meets our Lord's eyes, when He came down from the mount. Like Moses, when he came down from Mount Sinai, He finds his little flock in confusion. He sees His nine apostles beset by a party of malicious Scribes, and baffled in an attempt to heal one who had been brought to them possessed with a devil. The very same disciples who a short time before had done many miracles and "cast out many devils," had now met with a case too hard for them. They were learning by humbling experience the great lesson, "without me you can do nothing."
The words behind it
16 Greek wordsEvery Greek word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Greek | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| καὶ | kai | And | G2532 → | 9120 times |
| κράξας | kraxas | having cried out | G2896 → | 55 times |
| καὶ | kai | and | G2532 → | 9120 times |
| πολλὰ | polla | much | G4183 → | 367 times |
| σπαράξας | sparaxas | throwing into convulsions | G4682 → | |
| ἐξῆλθεν, | exelthen | it came out, | G1831 → | 216 times |
| καὶ | kai | and | G2532 → | 9120 times |
| ἐγένετο | egeneto | he became | G1096 → | 667 times |
| ὡσεὶ | hosei | as if | G5616 → | |
| νεκρὸς | nekros | dead | G3498 → | 128 times |
| ὥστε | hoste | in order for | G5620 → | 83 times |
| τοὺς | tous | <the> | G3588 → | 19766 times |
| πολλοὺς | pollous | many | G4183 → | 367 times |
| λέγειν | legein | to say | G3004 → | 1325 times |
| ὅτι | hoti | that | G3754 → | 1292 times |
| ἀπέθανεν. | apethanen | he was dead. | G599 → | 110 times |
καὶAnd
kaiG2532 →9120 times
κράξαςhaving cried out
kraxasG2896 →55 times
καὶand
kaiG2532 →9120 times
πολλὰmuch
pollaG4183 →367 times
σπαράξαςthrowing into convulsions
sparaxasG4682 →
ἐξῆλθεν,it came out,
exelthenG1831 →216 times
καὶand
kaiG2532 →9120 times
ἐγένετοhe became
egenetoG1096 →667 times
ὡσεὶas if
hoseiG5616 →
νεκρὸςdead
nekrosG3498 →128 times
ὥστεin order for
hosteG5620 →83 times
τοὺς<the>
tousG3588 →19766 times
πολλοὺςmany
pollousG4183 →367 times
λέγεινto say
legeinG3004 →1325 times
ὅτιthat
hotiG3754 →1292 times
ἀπέθανεν.he was dead.
apethanenG599 →110 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Revelation 12:12Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them! But woe to the earth and the sea; with great fury the devil has come down to you, knowing he has only a short…
it leads to
- Isaiah 49:13
Shout for joy, O heavens; rejoice, O earth; break forth in song, O mountains! For the LORD has comforted His people, and He will have compassion on His afflicted ones.
- Psalms 96:11–13
Let the heavens be glad and the earth rejoice; let the sea resound, and all that fills it.
- Revelation 18:20
Rejoice over her, O heaven, O saints and apostles and prophets, because God has pronounced for you His judgment against her.
- Revelation 8:13
And as I observed, I heard an eagle flying overhead, calling in a loud voice, “Woe! Woe! Woe to those who dwell on the earth, because of the trumpet blasts about to be sounded…
- Revelation 10:6
And he swore by Him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and everything in it, the earth and everything in it, and the sea and everything in it: “There will be no…
- Isaiah 49:13
Through
Mark 9:20So they brought him, and seeing Jesus, the spirit immediately threw the boy into a convulsion. He fell to the ground and rolled around, foaming at the mouth.
it 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 separate paths from here.
- Mark 1:26
At this, the unclean spirit threw the man into convulsions and came out with a loud shriek.
- Luke 9:42
Through
Mark 1:26At this, the unclean spirit threw the man into convulsions and came out with a loud shriek.
it leads to
- Mark 9:20
So they brought him, and seeing Jesus, the spirit immediately threw the boy into a convulsion. He fell to the ground and rolled around, foaming at the mouth.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Mark 9:20
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About Mark
This page draws on 9 works. Open the list of works
This page draws on Alexander Maclaren, Expositions of Holy Scripture, Mark; Bede, On the Gospel of Mark; Bede, Catena Aurea by Aquinas; Gregory the Dialogist, Catena Aurea by Aquinas; J.C. Ryle, Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Mark (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748); Pseudo-Chrysostom, Catena Aurea by Aquinas and Theophylact of Ohrid, Commentary on Mark.