Mark 1:26

26 And [after]^[a] convulsing him and crying out with a loud voice, the unclean spirit came out of him.

Mark 1:26 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 1:26

And when the unclean spirit had torn him
Not that he had torn any limb from him, or had made any wound in any part of his body; for Luke says, ( Luke 4:35 ) , that he "hurt him not", but he shook him; and as Luke there says, "threw him in the midst", of the people, or synagogue; and so the Syriac, Persic, and Ethiopic versions read here, "he cast him", or "threw him to the ground": he threw him into convulsions, and laid him prostrate on the floor:

and cried with a loud voice, he came out of him;
though sorely, against his will, as his loud cry showed, and being obliged to it by a superior power.

Mark 1:26 In-Context

24 saying, "{Leave us alone}, Jesus the Nazarene! Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are--the Holy One of God!"

25 And Jesus rebuked him, saying, "Be silent, and come out of him!"

26 And [after] convulsing him and crying out with a loud voice, the unclean spirit came out of him.

27 And they were all amazed, so that [they began] to discuss with one another, saying, "What is this? A new teaching with authority! He even commands the unclean spirits and they obey him."

28 And the report about him then went out everywhere in the whole surrounding region of Galilee.

Footnotes

• [a]. *Here "[after]" is supplied as a component of the participle ("convulsing") which is understood as temporal