Mark 9:26

After crying out and convulsing him greatly, it came out of him. The boy became like one dead; so much that most of them said, “He is dead.”

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WEBBE

After crying out and convulsing him greatly, it came out of him. The boy became like one dead, so much that most of them said, “He is dead.”

BSB

After shrieking and convulsing him violently, the spirit came out. The boy became like a corpse, so that many said, “He is dead.”

KJV

And the spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out of him: and he was as one dead; insomuch that many said, He is dead.

ASV

And having cried out, and torn him much, he came out: and [the boy] became as one dead; insomuch that the more part said, He is dead.

BBE

And after crying out and shaking him violently, it came out: and the child became like one dead; so that most of them said, He is dead.

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καὶ kai And G2532 κράξας kraxas having cried out G2896 καὶ kai and G2532 πολλὰ polla much G4183 σπαράξας sparaxas throwing into convulsions G4682 αὐτόν auton him G846 ἐξῆλθεν exēlthen it came out G1831 καὶ kai and G2532 ἐγένετο egeneto he became G1096 ὡσεὶ hōsei as if G5616 νεκρὸς nekros dead G3498 ὥστε hōste in order for G5620 τοὺς tous (the) G3588 πολλοὺς pollous many G4183 λέγειν legein to say G3004 ὅτι hoti that G3754 ἀπέθανεν apethanen he was dead G599

The early church

(Vict. Ant. e Cat. in Marc.) And the spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out of him; and he was as one dead, insomuch that many said, He is dead. For the devil was not able to inflict death upon him, because the true Life was come.
Pseudo-Chrysostom · d. 500Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)
(Mor. x. 30) But he who is freed from the power of the evil spirit is thought to be dead; for whosoever has already subdued earthly desires, puts to death within himself his carnal mode of life, and appears to the world as a dead man, and many look upon him as dead; for they who know not how to live after the Spirit, think that he who does not follow after carnal pleasures is altogether dead.
Gregory the Dialogist · d. 604Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)
(ubi sup.) For oftentimes when we try to turn to God after sin, our old enemy attacks us with new and greater snares, which he does, either to instil into us a hatred of virtue, or to avenge the injury of his expulsion.
Bede · d. 735Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)
This saying, If thou canst, is a proof of the freedom of the will. Again, all things are possible to him that believeth, which evidently means all those things which are prayed for with tears in the name of Jesus, that is, of salvation. By this also we are taught that our faith is tottering, if it lean not on the stay of the help of God. But faith by its tears receives the accomplishment of its wishes; Wherefore it continues, When Jesus saw that the multitude came running together, he rebuked the foul spirit, saying unto him, Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee come out of him, and enter no more into him. Again, a sinner foameth forth folly, gnasheth with anger, pineth away in sloth. But the evil spirit tears him, when coming to salvation, and in like manner those whom he would drag into his maw he tears asunder by terrors and losses, as he did Job. Further, in his being vexed from his infancy, the Gentile people is signified, from the very birth of whom the vain worship of idols arose, so that they in their folly sacrificed their children to devils. And for this reason it is said that it cast him into the fire and into the water; for some of the Gentiles worshipped fire, others water. Again, the Lord applies to the evil spirit what he had inflicted on the man, calling him deaf and dumb spirit, because he never will hear and speak what the penitent sinner can speak and hear. But the devil, quitting a man, never returns, if the man keep his heart with the keys of humility and charity, and hold possession of the gate of freedom.1 The man who was healed became as one dead, for it is said to those who are healed, Ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. (Col. 3:3.)
Pseudo-Jerome · d. 9999Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 14–29

The father of the suffering youth reflected on the want of power in the disciples; but Christ will have him reckon the disappointment to the want of faith. Very much is promised to our believing. If thou canst believe, it is possible that thy hard heart may be softened, thy spiritual diseases may be cured; and, weak as thou art, thou mayest be able to hold out to the end. Those that complain of unbelief, must look up to Christ for grace to help them against it, and his grace will be sufficient for them. Whom Christ cures, he cures effectually. But Satan is unwilling to be driven from those that have been long his slaves, and, when he cannot deceive or destroy the sinner, he will cause him all the terror that he can. The disciples must not think to do their work always with the same ease; some services call for more than ordinary pains.

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Dumb (Deafness, Mute)

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