Mark 5:1
Matthew 8:28; Luke 8:26.... [ Continue Reading ]
Matthew 8:28; Luke 8:26.... [ Continue Reading ]
There met him a man with an unclean spirit — St. Matthew mentions two. Probably this, so particularly spoken of here, was the most remarkably fierce and ungovernable.... [ Continue Reading ]
My name is Legion! for we are many — But all these seem to have been under one commander, who accordingly speaks all along, both for them and himself.... [ Continue Reading ]
And they were afraid — It is not improbable they might otherwise have offered some rudeness, if not violence.... [ Continue Reading ]
Matthew 9:1; Luke 8:37;... [ Continue Reading ]
Tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee — This was peculiarly needful there, where Christ did not go in person.... [ Continue Reading ]
He published in Decapolis — Not only at home, but in all that country where Jesus himself did not come.... [ Continue Reading ]
Luke 8:40.... [ Continue Reading ]
One of the rulers of the synagogue — To regulate the affairs of every synagogue, there was a council of grave men. Over these was a president, who was termed the ruler of the synagogue. Sometimes there was no more than one ruler in a synagogue. Matthew 9:18; Luke 8:41.... [ Continue Reading ]
Matthew 9:20; Luke 8:43.... [ Continue Reading ]
John, the brother of James — When St. Mark wrote, not long after our Lord's ascension, the memory of St. James, lately beheaded, was so fresh, that his name was more known than that of John himself.... [ Continue Reading ]
Them that were with him — Peter, James, and John.... [ Continue Reading ]
He charged them that no man should know it — That he might avoid every appearance of vain glory, might prevent too great a concourse of people, and might not farther enrage the scribes and Pharisees against him; the time for his death, and for the full manifestation of his glory, being not yet come.... [ Continue Reading ]