Marcos 9:26

26 El espíritu, dando un alarido y sacudiendo violentamente al muchacho, salió de él. Este quedó como muerto, tanto que muchos decían: «Ya se murió».

Marcos 9:26 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 9:26

And [the spirit] cried, and rent him sore
We rightly supply, "the spirit", as do the Syriac and Persic versions, "the demon"; for it was he, and not the child, that cried, and made an hideous noise, at his ejection; being filled with wrath and rage, that he must be obliged to quit the possession he had so long held; and therefore, in spite and malice, before it left him, shook and tore him, and threw him into dreadful convulsions:

and came out of him;
though sore against his will, being obliged to it, by the superior power of Christ:

and he was as one dead:
that is, the child, when the devil had left him, lay as still as if he had no breath, nor life in him:

insomuch that many said, he is dead;
really dead: that there was no life in him, nor any hopes of his coming to himself again.

Marcos 9:26 In-Context

24 —¡Sí creo! —exclamó de inmediato el padre del muchacho—. ¡Ayúdame en mi poca fe!

25 Al ver Jesús que se agolpaba mucha gente, reprendió al espíritu maligno.—Espíritu sordo y mudo —dijo—, te mando que salgas y que jamás vuelvas a entrar en él.

26 El espíritu, dando un alarido y sacudiendo violentamente al muchacho, salió de él. Este quedó como muerto, tanto que muchos decían: «Ya se murió».

27 Pero Jesús lo tomó de la mano y lo levantó, y el muchacho se puso de pie.

28 Cuando Jesús entró en casa, sus discípulos le preguntaron en privado:—¿Por qué nosotros no pudimos expulsarlo?