Mark 9:18
Whenever it seizes him, it throws him to the ground. He foams at the mouth, gnashes his teeth, and becomes rigid. I asked Your disciples to drive it out, but they were unable.”
Note Or and is withering away
And wheresoever he taketh him, he teareth him: and he foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth, and pineth away: and I spake to thy disciples that they should cast him out; and they could not.
and wherever it seizes him, it throws him down; and he foams at the mouth, grinds his teeth, and becomes rigid. I asked your disciples to cast it out, and they weren’t able.”
and wheresoever it taketh him, it dasheth him down: and he foameth, and grindeth his teeth, and pineth away: and I spake to thy disciples that they should cast it out; and they were not able.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- teareth him
- or, dasheth him.
- Mark 9:26; Matthew 15:22; Luke 9:39
- he foameth
- As these symptoms accord very much with those of epileptic persons, some have ventured to assert that it was no real possession; but the evangelist expressly affirms that he had a "dumb spirit" which tare him, that our Lord charged him to "come out of him," etc.
- Mark 9:20; Jude 1:13
- gnasheth
- Job 16:9; Psalm 112:10; Matthew 8:12; Acts 7:54
- and they
- Mark 9:28, 29; Mark 11:23; 2 Kings 4:29–31; Matthew 17:16, 19–21; Luke 9:40