Mark wrote how, “all the people, when they beheld” Jesus “were greatly amazed, and running to him saluted him. And he asked the scribes, What question you with them? And one of the multitude answered and said, Master, I have brought unto you my son, which has a dumb spirit”, and in chapter nine and verse eighteen of his book, Mark shared how the man said his son, “is torn, foams, gnashes with his teeth, and pines away” where we read:
And wheresoever he takes him, he tears him: and he foams, and gnashes with his teeth, and pines away: and I spake to your disciples that they should cast him out; and they could not.
The verse reads, “And wheresoever he takes him, he tears him: and he foams, and gnashes with his teeth, and pines away:” Mark began with the words, “And wheresoever” which means “and in whatever place” “he takes him” or “the spirit carries, seizes and takes possession of the man's son”, “he tears him” which means “the spirit rends, bursts, breaks, distorts and convulses the man's son”: “and he foams” or “and the son froths at the mouth as in epilepsy”, “and gnashes with his teeth” which means “and squeaks and makes a shrill cry as well as grinds his teeth”, “and pines away” or “and becomes withered and wasted away”. Mark shared how the man's son “convulses, froths at the mouth like epilepsy, grinds his teeth and becomes wasted away when the “mute spirit” takes control of him.
The verse continues, “and I spake to your disciples that they should cast him out; and they could not.” Mark added the words, “and I spake” which means “and the man from the multitude with the mute son bid, brought word and said” “to your disciples” or “toward Jesus' students, pupils and attendants” “that they should cast him out” which means “that the disciples should drive, expel and compel the spirit to depart from the man's son”. Mark shared how the man with the “mute” son asked Jesus' “disciples” to “cast” the “spirit” out of his son.
When we think through Mark's words in this verse, we see the man from the multitude attempting to have Jesus' “disciples” help him. Desperate people attempt to solve their problems through any means possible, and this man believed Jesus could help Him. God has His plan for every circumstance people experience, and when they come to Him through His Son Jesus, He will always meet their need. God heals and helps according to His purposes and plan, and those who are wise will yield to His Son Jesus as their personal “Savior and Lord” and allow Him to manage the situations in their lives.
Next time Mark shares how Jesus asks, “O faithless generation, how long shall I be with you?”, so read ahead, and we shall join together then.
Until
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All references are from "Strongs Concordance".
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