Mark 5:4-20

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Mark 5:9

(9) And he asked him, What is thy name? and he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many. CHRIST's question could not have been for himself, but it seems to have been intended for the information of his disciples then with him, and for all his disciples to the end of time. The enemy we have to do with is truly a legion; multitudes of his soldiers in the lust of our flesh, and his dominion by them over the fallen nature he hath ruined, are at his command; which like a Roman... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Mark 5:10-14

(10) And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the country. (11) Now there was there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine feeding. (12) And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them. (13) And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea, (they were about two thousand,) and were choked in the sea. (14) And they... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Mark 5:15-17

(15) And they come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with the devil, and had the legion, sitting, and clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid. (16) And they that saw it told them how it befell to him that was possessed with the devil, and also concerning the swine. (17) And they began to pray him to depart, out of their coasts. I stay not so much to remark the terrible consternation, which this demonstration of CHRIST's power must have induced on all beholders. Such; but... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Mark 5:18-20

(18) And when he was come into the ship, he that had been possessed with the devil prayed him that he might be with (19) Howbeit, Jesus suffered him not, but saith unto him, Go home to thy. friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and hath had compassion on thee. (20) And he departed, and began to publish in Decapolis how great things Jesus had done for him and all men did marvel. There is somewhat very affecting in this request of the poor man; and our LORD's... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Mark 5:7

I adjure thee by God. The same is, I earnestly beg of thee not to torment me, by sending me into hell, and confining me in the abyss, there to be more tormented than I am at present. See St. Luke viii. 31. (Witham) read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Mark 5:9

My name is Legion. Spirits have no names, only with respect to our language. These devils say their name is Legion, because they are many. (Witham) read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Mark 5:13

Jesus Christ permitted the devil to destroy these swine, that from their destruction, the men of that country might take the alarm, and be converted. (Ven. Bede) read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Mark 5:17

Astonished at the miracle that had been performed, and displeased with the loss of their herds, they refused the Saviour of the world entrance into their country. (Theophylactus) --- It is observed that all Christ's miracles, except this, and the blasted fig-tree, were of the beneficent kind. We cannot but pity the wretched blindness of the Gerasens, in driving Jesus from their coasts. As a just judgment of God, their city was the first that fell into the hands of the Romans, in the fatal war... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Mark 5:18

That he might be with him; i.e. as one of his disciples. St. Ambrose says Christ did not grant his request, lest they might think that he sought to be glorified by men, in having always in his company a man out of whom he had cast so many devils. Christ himself seems to give us another reason, that the man might go, and publish in his own country the miracles done by Jesus. (Witham) read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Mark 5:19

And he admitted him not: By Christ's conduct on this occasion, he teaches his disciples that they ought sometimes to make known their own good works, when either the glory of God or the edification of their neighbour were likely to be advanced by such a manifestation: otherwise they ought to conceal them, out of a spirit of humility. (Denis the Carthusian) read more

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