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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Mark 9:20 - 9:20
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And they brought him unto him: and when he saw him, straightway the spirit tare him - Just as the man with the legion of demons, “when he saw Jesus, ran and worshipped Him” (Mar 5:6), so this demon, when he saw Him, immediately “tare him.” The feeling of terror and rage was the same in both cases.
and he fell on the ground, and wallowed foaming - Still Jesus does nothing, but keeps conversing with the father about the case - partly to have its desperate features told out by him who knew them best, in the hearing of the spectators; partly to let its virulence have time to show itself; and partly to deepen the exercise of the father’s soul, to draw out his faith, and thus to prepare both him and the by-standers for what He was to do.