Teks -- Mark 9:25 (NET)

9:25 Now when Jesus saw that a crowd was quickly gathering, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, “Mute and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him and never enter him again.”

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Robertson: Mar 9:25 - A multitude came running together

A multitude came running together ( episuntrechei ochlos ).

A double compound here alone in the N.T. and not in the old Greek writers. Epitrechō occurs in the papyri, but not episuntrechō . The double compound vividly describes the rapid gathering of the crowd to Jesus and the epileptic boy to see the outcome.

Robertson: Mar 9:25 - Come out of him

Come out of him ( exelthe ex autou ).

Jesus addresses the demon as a separate being from the boy as he often does. This makes it difficult to believe that Jesus was merely indulging popular belief in a superstition. He evidently regards the demon as the cause in this case of the boy’ s misfortune.

Wesley: Mar 9:25 - Thou deaf and dumb spirit

So termed, because he made the child so. When Jesus spake, the devil heard, though the child could not.

Wesley: Mar 9:25 - I command thee

I myself now; not my disciples.

Clarke: Mar 9:25 - I charge thee

I charge thee - Considerable emphasis should be laid on the pronoun: - Thou didst resist the command of my disciples, now I command thee to come out. If this had been only a natural disease, for instance the epilepsy, as some have argued, could our Lord have addressed it, with any propriety, as he has done here: Thou deaf and dumb spirit, come out of him, and enter no more into him? Is the doctrine of demoniacal influence false? If so, Jesus took the most direct method to perpetuate the belief of that falsity, by accommodating himself so completely to the deceived vulgar. But this was impossible; therefore the doctrine of demoniacal influence is a true doctrine, otherwise Christ would never have given it the least countenance or support.

TSK: Mar 9:25 - he rebuked // thou // I charge

he rebuked : Mar 1:25-27, Mar 5:7, Mar 5:8; Zec 3:2; Mat 17:18; Luk 4:35, Luk 4:41, Luk 9:42; Jud 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, Isa 35:6; Mat 9:32, Mat 9:33, Mat 12:22; Luk 11:14

I charge : Luk 8:29; Act 16:18

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Mar 9:17-29 - See Poole on "Mat 17:14"

Ver. 17-29. This famous history is also recorded by two other evangelists, Matthew and Luke; we have opened it in our notes on Mat 17:14-21 ;

( See Poole on "Mat 17:14" , and following verses to Mat 17:21 ) and considered what Mark and Luke have to complete it. For our instruction we may learn several things from the consideration of it:

1. The great goodness of God in preserving us from the power of evil spirits, as also the daily working of his providence for our preservation. What but this kept this man from being destroyed by the fires and the waters into which he had been often thrown by the evil spirit?

2. That the shorter the devil’ s time is, the more he rageth, Mar 9:20 . This is true, both as to the devil himself, and his instruments: Rev 12:12 , The devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time. Thus, in the moment of conversion Christians often meet with the strongest conflicts of temptation.

3. The fault is not in Christ, but in ourselves, if we receive not that mercy from him which he hath, and which we stand in need of, and beg from him— If (saith Christ) thou canst believe.

4. God rewardeth weak faith where it is attended with a sincere desire of increase. This poor man showed a very imperfect faith in saying, If thou canst do any thing; but it being in some degree sincere, the Lord rewardeth it, though weak, he desiring an increase of it, and that God would from his goodness supply what was defective in his faith.

5. The great cures both of our bodies and souls in some cases, require more extraordinary and importunate addresses and applications unto God, more especially where evils are more inveterate. For other things relating to this history;

See Poole on "Mat 17:14" , and following verses to Mat 17:21 .

Gill: Mar 9:25 - When Jesus saw that the people came running together // he rebuked the foul spirit // saying unto him, thou dumb and deaf spirit // I charge thee come out of him, and enter no more into him

When Jesus saw that the people came running together,.... לותיה, "to him", as the Syriac version adds, and so the Persic; upon hearing the vehement cry of the father of the child, and the earnest solicitations he made, expecting that something would be done:

he rebuked the foul spirit; that brought this disorder on the child, had continued it so long, and with so much violence. Matthew calls this foul spirit, "the devil"; see Gill on Mat 17:18,

saying unto him, thou dumb and deaf spirit; so calling him, not because the spirit was dumb and deaf, but because he had been the cause of dumbness and deafness in the child: he had at times taken away both his speech and hearing:

I charge thee come out of him, and enter no more into him. Christ, in an authoritative way, ordered the unclean spirit to leave his possession, and never attempt to regain it more. This he said, partly with regard to the devil, who would be desirous of repossession; and partly with respect to the disease, which had its intervals, and returned at certain times; and also with respect to the father of the child, to confirm his faith in the cure, and that he might be in no pain about the return of the disorder.