Mark 9:17-26
I Mark 5:23, Mark 7:26, Mark 10:13; Matt 17:15; Luke 9:38; John 4:47 a dumb Mark 9:25; Matt 12:22; Luke 11:14 teareth him or, dasheth him, Mark 9:26; Matt 15:22; Luke 9:39 he foameth As these symptoms accord very much with those of epileptic persons, some have ventured to assert that it was no real possession; but the evangelist expressly affirms that he had a "dumb spirit" which tare him, that our Lord charged him to "come out of him," etc. Mark 9:20; Jude 1:13 gnasheth Job 16:9; Ps 112:10; Matt 8:12; Acts 7:54 and they Mark 9:28-29, Mark 11:23; 2Kgs 4:29-31; Matt 17:16, Matt 17:19-21; Luke 9:40 O faithless Mark 16:14; Num 14:11, Num 14:22, Num 14:27, Num 32:13-14; Deut 32:20; Ps 78:6-8, Ps 78:22, Ps 106:21-25; Matt 17:17; Luke 9:41, Luke 24:25; John 12:27, John 20:27; Heb 3:10-12 the spirit Mark 9:18, Mark 9:26, Mark 1:26, Mark 5:3-5; Job 1:10-12, Job 2:6-8; Luke 4:35, Luke 8:29, Luke 9:42; John 8:44; 1Pet 5:8 How Mark 5:25; Job 5:7, Job 14:1; Ps 51:5; Luke 8:43, Luke 13:16; John 5:5-6, John 9:1, John 9:20-21; Acts 3:2, Acts 4:22, Acts 9:33, Acts 14:8 if Mark 1:40-42; Matt 8:2, Matt 8:8-9, Matt 9:28, Matt 14:31 have Mark 5:19; Matt 15:22-28, Matt 20:34; Luke 7:13 If Mark 11:23; 2Chr 20:20; Matt 17:20, Matt 21:21-22; Luke 17:6; John 4:48-50, John 11:40; Acts 14:9; Heb 11:6 with 2Sam 16:12 *marg. 2Kgs 20:5; Ps 39:12, Ps 126:5; Jer 14:17; Luke 7:38, Luke 7:44; Acts 10:19, Acts 10:31; 2Cor 2:4; 2Tim 1:4; Heb 5:7, Heb 12:17 help Luke 17:5; Eph 2:8; Phil 1:29; 2Thess 1:3, 2Thess 1:11; Heb 12:2 he rebuked Mark 1:25-27, Mark 5:7-8; Zech 3:2; Matt 17:18; Luke 4:35, Luke 4:41, Luke 9:42; Jude 1:9 thou If this had been only a natural disease, as some have contended, could our Lord with any propriety have thus addressed it? If the demoniacal possession had been false, or merely a vulgar error, would our Lord, the Revealer of truth, have thus established falsehood, sanctioned error, or encouraged deception, by teaching men to ascribe effects to the malice and power of evil spirits, which they had no agency in producing? Impossible! Such conduct is utterly unworthy the sacred character of the Redeemer. Isa 35:5-6; Matt 9:32-33, Matt 12:22; Luke 11:14 I charge Luke 8:29; Acts 16:18 cried Mark 9:18, Mark 9:20, Mark 1:26; Exod 5:23; Rev 12:12
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