Mark 9:18
And wherever it seizes him, it throws him into convulsions; and he foams, and gnashes with his teeth, and pines away: and I spoke to your disciples to cast him out, and they were not able.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
17And one of the multitude answered and said: Teacher, I brought to you my son, who has a dumb spirit.
Cross References
Matthew 8:12but the sons of the kingdom shall be cast into the darkness that is without. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Matthew 17:16And I brought him to thy disciples, and they were not able to cure him.
Mark 9:20And they brought him to him. And when he saw him, the spirit immediately threw him into convulsions; and he fell on the ground, and rolled himself, foaming.
Mark 9:28And when he had come into the house, his disciples asked him privately: Why were we not able to cast it out?
Luke 9:39and, behold, a spirit seizes him, and he suddenly cries out, and it throws him into convulsions, and causes him to foam, and after depriving him of strength, hardly departs from him.
Matthew Henry on Mark 9:15-30
The Expulsion of an Evil Spirit. 14 And when he came to his disciples, he saw a great multitude about them, and the scribes questioning with them. 15 And straightway all the people, when they beheld him, were greatly amazed, and running to him saluted him. 16 And he asked the scribes, What question ye with them? 17 And one of the multitude answered and said, Master, I have brought unto thee my son, which hath a dumb spirit; 18 And wheresoever he taketh him, he teareth him: and he foameth, and gnasheth with his… Read the whole commentary →