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Mark 9:20

And they brought him unto him: and when he saw him, straightway the spirit tare him; and he fell on the ground, and wallowed foaming.

KJV

καὶ ἤνεγκαν αὐτὸν πρὸς αὐτόν. καὶ ἰδὼν αὐτὸν, τὸ πνεῦμα εὐθὺς συνεσπάραξεν αὐτόν, καὶ πεσὼν ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς ἐκυλίετο ἀφρίζων.

Greek NT

Et interrogavit patrem ejus : Quantum temporis est ex quo ei hoc accidit ? At ille ait : Ab infantia :

Vulgate

And they brought him unto him: and when he saw him, straightway the spirit tare him grievously; and he fell on the ground, and wallowed foaming.

ASV

And he asked his father: How long time is it since this hath happened unto him? But he sad: From his infancy.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

14 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
γῆ
ge
noun · 251×
εὐθέως
eutheos
adverb · 85×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
κυλιόω
kulioo
verb · 1×
πίπτω
pipto
verb · 89×
πνεῦμα
pneuma
noun · 379×
πρός
pros
preposition · 697×
συσπαράσσω
susparasso
verb · 2×
φέρω
phero
verb · 68×
ἀφρίζω
aphrizo
verb · 2×
ἐπί
epi
preposition · 888×
o
article · 19778×
ὁράω
orao
verb · 682×

Textual variants

2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

minor
SBLGNT: τὸ πνεῦμα εὐθὺς | WH/Treg/NIV: τὸ πνεῦμα εὐθὺς | RP: εὐθέως τὸ πνεῦμα
  • τὸ πνεῦμα εὐθὺςSBLGNT
  • τὸ πνεῦμα εὐθὺςWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • εὐθέως τὸ πνεῦμαRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
minor
SBLGNT: συνεσπάραξεν | WH/NIV: συνεσπάραξεν | Treg/RP: ἐσπάραξεν
  • συνεσπάραξενSBLGNT
  • συνεσπάραξενWestcott-Hort, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • ἐσπάραξενTregelles, Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§649As for the Son, he effects his own Resurrection by virtue of his divine power. Jesus announces that the Son of man will have to suffer much, die, and then rise.516 Elsewhere he affirms explicitly: "I lay down my life, that I may take it again. . . I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again."517 "We believe that Jesus died and rose again."518

Cross-references

  • 1Pet 5:8 — Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
  • Job 1:10 — Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.
  • Job 2:6 — And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thine hand; but save his life.
  • John 8:44 — Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he
  • Luke 4:35 — And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him. And when the devil had thrown him in the midst, he came out of him, and hurt him not.
  • Luke 8:29 — (For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For oftentimes it had caught him: and he was kept bound with chains and in fetters; and he brake the bands, and was driven of the devil
  • Luke 9:42 — And as he was yet a coming, the devil threw him down, and tare him. And Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and healed the child, and delivered him again to his father.
  • Mark 1:26 — And when the unclean spirit had torn him, and cried with a loud voice, he came out of him.
  • Mark 1:26 — And when the unclean spirit had torn him, and cried with a loud voice, he came out of him.
  • Mark 5:3 — Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains:
  • Mark 9:18 — 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.
  • Mark 9:18 — 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.
  • Mark 9:26 — 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.
  • Mark 9:26 — 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.