Marco 9:26

26 E lo spirito, gridando e straziandolo forte, uscì; e il fanciullo rimase come morto; talché quasi tutti dicevano: E’ morto.

Marco 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.

Marco 9:26 In-Context

24 E subito il padre del fanciullo esclamò: Io credo; sovvieni alla mia incredulità.

25 E Gesù, vedendo che la folla accorreva, sgridò lo spirito immondo, dicendogli: Spirito muto e sordo, io tel comando, esci da lui e non entrar più in lui.

26 E lo spirito, gridando e straziandolo forte, uscì; e il fanciullo rimase come morto; talché quasi tutti dicevano: E’ morto.

27 Ma Gesù lo sollevò, ed egli si rizzò in piè.

28 E quando Gesù fu entrato in casa, i suoi discepoli gli domandarono in privato: Perché non abbiam potuto cacciarlo noi?