Mar 5 | TSK | STEP | Christ delivering the possessed of the legion of devils, they enter into the swine. He is entreated by Jairus to go and heal his daughter. He heals the woman of the bloody issue, and raises from death Jairus' daughter.

‏ Mark 5

1 Christ delivering the possessed of the legion of devils,

13 they enter into the swine.

22 He is entreated by Jairus to go and heal his daughter.

25 He heals the woman of the bloody issue,

35 and raises from death Jairus' daughter.

4:35; Mt 8:28-34; Lu 8:26-39

out.

Isa 65:4; Lu 8:27

a man.Matthew gives a brief account of two demoniacs who were dispossessed on this occasion; but Mark and Luke omit the mention of one (who was perhaps not so remarkable). That these wretched men were not merely mad, as some suppose, but really possessed of evil spirits, appears clearly from the language employed, as well as from the narrative itself. Matthew expressly affirms that they were "possessed with devils," or demoniacs, [daimonizomai ;] Mark says he had "an unclean spirit," i.e., a fallen spirit; and Luke asserts, that he "had devils (or demons) a long time," and was called Legion, "because many devils were entered into him." With supernatural strength the demons burst asunder the chains and fetters with which he was bound; they address Christ as the "Son of the most high God;" they beseech him to suffer them to enter into the swine; and when he had given them leave, they "went out and entered into the swine," etc.

with.

8; 1:23,26; 3:30; 7:25; Lu 9:42

9:18-22; Isa 65:4; Da 4:32,33; Lu 8:29

tame.

Jas 3:7,8

crying.

1Ki 18:28; Job 2:7,8; Joh 8:44

he ran.

Ps 66:3; *marg:

Ps 72:9; Lu 4:41; Ac 16:17; Jas 2:19

What.

1:24; Ho 14:8; Mt 8:29; Lu 4:34

Son.

3:11; 14:61; Mt 16:16; Joh 20:31; Ac 8:37; 16:17

I adjure.

1Ki 22:16; Mt 26:63; Ac 19:13

that.

Ge 3:15; Mt 8:29; Lu 8:28; Ro 16:20; Heb 2:14; 2Pe 2:4; 1Jo 3:8

Jude 1:6; Re 12:12; 20:1-3

1:25; 9:25,26; Ac 16:18

What.

Lu 8:30; 11:21-26

Legion.

Mt 12:45; 26:53

13; 3:22

herd.

Le 11:7,8; De 14:8; Isa 65:4; 66:3; Mt 8:30; Lu 8:32

Job 1:10-12; 2:5; Lu 22:31,32; 2Co 2:11; 1Pe 5:8

gave.

1Ki 22:22; Job 1:12; 2:6; Mt 8:32; 1Pe 3:22; Re 13:5-7; 20:7

the herd.

Joh 8:44; Re 9:11

Mt 8:33; Lu 8:34

him that.

4; Isa 49:24,25; Mt 9:33; 12:29; Lu 8:35,36; 10:39; Col 1:13

and they.

1Sa 6:20,21; 16:4; 1Ch 13:12; 15:13; Job 13:11; Ps 14:5; 2Ti 1:7

7; 1:24; Ge 26:16; De 5:25; 1Ki 17:18; Job 21:14,15; Mt 8:34; Lu 5:8

Lu 8:37; Ac 16:39

prayed.

7,17; Ps 116:12; Lu 8:38,39; 17:15-17; 23:42,43; Php 1:23,24

Go home.

Ps 66:16; Isa 38:9-20; Da 4:1-3,37; 6:25-27; Jon 2:1-10; Joh 4:29

Ac 22:1-21; 26:4-29

Decapolis.

7:31; Mt 4:25

Mt 9:1; Lu 8:40

there.

Mt 9:18,19; Lu 8:41,42

rulers.

Lu 13:14; Ac 13:15; 18:8,17

he fell.

33; Mt 2:11; Lu 5:8; 8:28; Ac 10:25,26; Re 22:8

besought.

7:25-27; 9:21,22; 2Sa 12:15,16; Ps 50:15; 107:19; Lu 4:38; 7:2,3,12

Joh 4:46,47; 11:3

lay thy hands.

6:5,6,13; 16:18; 2Ki 5:11; Mt 8:3; Lu 4:40; 13:13; Ac 28:8

Jas 5:14,15

went.

Lu 7:6; Ac 10:38

and thronged.

31; 3:9,10,20; Lu 8:42,45; 12:1; 19:3

a certain.

Mt 9:20-22; Lu 8:43,44

an issue.

Le 15:19,20,25-27

twelve.

Lu 13:11; Joh 5:5,6; Ac 4:22; 9:33,34

had suffered.No person will wonder at this account when he considers the therapeutics of the Jewish physicians, in reference to diseases of this kind (for an account of which, see Drs. Lightfoot and Clarke). She was, therefore, a fit patient for the Great Physician.

Job 13:4; Jer 8:22; 30:12,13; 51:8

nothing.

Ps 108:12

touched.

6:56; 2Ki 13:21; Mt 14:36; Ac 5:15; 19:12

straightway.

Ex 15:26; Job 33:24,25; Ps 30:2; 103:3; 107:20; 147:3

fountain.

Le 20:18

plague.

34; 3:10; 1Ki 8:37; Lu 7:21

virtue.

Lu 6:19; 8:46; 1Pe 2:9; *marg:

Thou seest.

Lu 8:45; 9:12

the woman.

4:41; Lu 1:12,29; 8:47

and told.

Ps 30:2; 66:16; 103:2-5; 116:12-14

Daughter.

Mt 9:2,22; Lu 8:48

thy faith.

10:52; Lu 7:50; 8:48; 17:19; 18:42; Ac 14:9

go.

1Sa 1:17; 20:42; 2Ki 5:19; Ec 9:7

there came.

Lu 8:49

thy daughter.

Joh 5:25; 11:25

why.

Lu 7:6,7; Joh 11:21,32,39

the Master.

10:17; Mt 26:18; Joh 11:28

only.

34; 9:23; 2Ch 20:20; Mt 9:28,29; 17:20; Lu 8:50; Joh 4:48-50; 11:40

Ro 4:18-24

he suffered.

Lu 8:51; Ac 9:40

save.

9:2; 14:33; 2Co 13:1

and seeth.

Jer 9:17-20; Mt 9:23,24; 11:17; Lu 8:52,53; Ac 9:39

not dead.

Da 12:2; Joh 11:11-13; Ac 20:10; 1Co 11:30; 1Th 4:13,14; 5:10

they.

Ge 19:14; Ne 2:19; Job 12:4; Ps 22:7; 123:3,4; Lu 16:14; Ac 17:32

when.

2Ki 4:33; Mt 7:6; 9:24,25; Lu 8:53,54

he taketh.He took just so many as prudence required, and as were sufficient to prove the reality of the cure; to have permitted the presence of more, might have savoured of ostentation.

took.

1:31; Ac 9:40,41

Talitha cumi.[Talitha cumi;] which is pure Syriac, the same as in the Syriac version, the proper translation of which is given by the evangelist.

Damsel.

1:41; Ge 1:3; Ps 33:9; Lu 7:14,15; 8:54,55; Joh 5:28,29; 11:43,44

Ro 4:17; Php 3:21

1:27; 4:41; 6:51; 7:37; Ac 3:10-13

he charged.

1:43; 3:12; 7:36; Mt 8:4; 9:30; 12:16-18; 17:9; Lu 5:14; 8:56; Joh 5:41

and commanded.This was to shew that she had not only returned to life, but was also restored to perfect health; and to intimate, that though raised to life by extraordinary power, she must be continued in existence, as before, by the use of ordinary means. The advice of a heathen, on another subject, is quite applicable: {Nec Deus intersit, nisi dignus vindice nodus inciderit.} "When the miraculous power of God is necessary, let it be resorted to; when not necessary, let the ordinary means be used." To act otherwise would be to tempt God.

Given.

Lu 24:30,42,43; Ac 10:41