Mark Chapter 5 verse 2 Holy Bible
And when he was come out of the boat, straightway there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit,
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And when he had got out of the boat, straight away there came to him from the place of the dead a man with an unclean spirit.
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And immediately on his going out of the ship there met him out of the tombs a man possessed by an unclean spirit,
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And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit,
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When he had come out of the boat, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit,
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and he having come forth out of the boat, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 2-5. - There met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit. St. Matthew says that there were two. St. Luke, like St. Mark, mentions only one, and him "possessed with devils," The one mentioned by St. Mark was no doubt the more prominent and fierce of the two. This does not mean merely a person with a disordered intellect. No doubt, in this case, as in that of insanity, physical causes may have helped to lay the victim open to such an incursion; and this may account for cases of possession being enumerated with various sicknesses, though distinguished from them. But our Lord evidently deals with these persons, not as persons suffering from insanity, but as the subjects of an alien spiritual power, external to themselves. He addresses the unclean spirit through the man that was possessed, and says," Come forth thou unclean spirit" (Ver. 8). There met him out of the tombs. The Jews did not have their burial-places in their cities, lest they should be defiled; therefore they buried their dead without the gates in the fields or mountains. Their sepulchres were frequently hewn out of the rock in the sides of the limestone hills, and they were lofty and capacious; so that the living could enter them, as into a vault. So this demoniac dwelt in the tombs, because the unclean spirit drove him thither, where the associations of the place would accord with his malady and aggravate its symptoms. St. Matthew, speaking of the two, says that they were "exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass that way." The demoniac particularly mentioned by St. Mark is described as having been possessed of that extraordinary muscular strength which maniacs so often put forth; so that all efforts to bind and restrain him had proved ineffectual. No man could any more bind him, no, not with a chain (οὐδὲ ἁλύσειύ). Chains and fetters had often been tried, but in vain. Frequently too, in the paroxysms of his malady, he would turn his violence against himself, crying out, and cutting himself with stones.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(2) A man with an unclean spirit.--The phrase. though not peculiar to St. Mark, is often used by him where the other Gospels have "possessed with demons, or devils." St. Mark and St. Luke, it will be noticed, speak of one only; St. Matthew of two.
