Mark 9:38 BSB — MannaFest

Mark 9:38

John said to Him, “Teacher, we saw someone else driving out demons in Your name, and we tried to stop him, because he does not accompany us.”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

John said unto him, Teacher, we saw one casting out demons in thy name; and we forbade him, because he followed not us.

KJV

And John answered him, saying, Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name, and he followeth not us: and we forbad him, because he followeth not us.

⋯

Commentary

1 voice

Bede

Catena Aurea by Aquinas (735)

(ubi sup.) John, loving the Lord with eminent devotion, thought that He who performed an office to which He had no right was to be excluded from the benefit of it. Wherefore it is said, And John answered him, saying, Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name, and he followeth not us: and we forbad him, because he followeth not us.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

He rebukes them for vilifying all but themselves; while they are striving which of them should be greatest, they will not allow those who are not in communion with them to be any thing. The account which John gave him, of the restraint they had laid upon one from making use of the name of Christ, because he was not of their society.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

And perhaps there were many more such. Christ's grace is not tied to the visible church. (2.) It was strange that one who cast out devils in the name of Christ, did not join himself to the apostles, and follow Christ with them, but should continue to act in separation from them.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

We saw one casting out devils in thy name - It can scarcely be supposed that a man who knew nothing of Christ, or who was only a common exorcist, could be able to work a miracle in Christ’s name; we may therefore safely imagine that this was either one of John the Baptist’s disciples, who, at his master’s command, had believed in Jesus, or one of the seventy, whom Christ had sent out, Luk 10:1-7, who, after he had fulfilled his commission, had retired from accompanying the other disciples; but as he still held fast his faith in Christ, and walked in good conscience, the influence of his Master still continued with him, so that he could cast out demons as well as the other disciples.

J.C. Ryle

Voices on this verse

loading…

Original language & word study

20 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Ἔφη	Ephē	was speaking	G5346 →
αὐτῷ	autō	to Him	G846 →
ὁ	ho	<the>	G3588 →
Ἰωάννης·	Iōannēs	John;	G2491 →
διδάσκαλε,	didaskale	Teacher,	G1320 →
εἴδομέν	eidomen	we saw	G1492 →
τινα	tina	someone	G5100 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
τῷ	tō	the	G3588 →
ὀνόματί	onomati	name	G3686 →
σου	sou	of You	G4771 →
ἐκβάλλοντα	ekballonta	casting out	G1544 →
δαιμόνια	daimonia	demons	G1140 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ἐκωλύομεν	ekōluomen	we were forbidding	G2967 →
αὐτὸν	auton	him	G846 →
ὅτι	hoti	because	G3754 →
οὐκ	ouk	not	G3756 →
ἠκολούθει	ēkolouthei	he was following	G190 →
ἡμῖν.¶	hēmin	us.	G3165 →

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

The walk

The walk5

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
Luke 11:19
And if I drive out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons drive them out? So then, they will be your judges.
leads to
- Luke 9:49
  “Master,” said John, “we saw someone driving out demons in Your name, and we tried to stop him, because he does not accompany us.”
- Job 15:6
  Your own mouth, not mine, condemns you; your own lips testify against you.
- Romans 3:19
  Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.
- Matthew 12:27–28
  And if I drive out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons drive them out? So then, they will be your judges.
- Matthew 12:41–42
  The men of Nineveh will stand at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and now One greater than Jonah is here.