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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But the men marvelled,.... Mark says, "they feared exceedingly"; and Luke, "they being afraid, wondered": they were filled with astonishment and fear, or reverence: there was such a shine of majesty, such a lustre of divine power appeared in this affair. The other two evangelists seem to refer this to the disciples, which Matthew seems to ascribe...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But the men marvelled, saying, What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him! We have often marvelled in the same way, but we know that it is not any “manner of man” alone, but that he, who was truly man, who was also “very God of very God,” the God-man, the man Christ Jesus, the mediator between God and men.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But the men marvelled, saying, What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him? They did not know their Lord yet; nor do we. Perhaps we have to go to sea to learn more of him, I mean that troubles and trials of a greater sort than we have known before may yet have to come to be our schoolmasters to teach us what Jesus is....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But the men marvelled, saying, What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him! Now see the King in conflict with the powers of darkness.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And when he was come to the other side,.... Of the lake, or sea of Tiberias, right over against Galilee, into the country of Gergesenes, the same with the Girgashites, Genesis 15:21 whom Joshua drove out of the land of Canaan; and who, as a Jewish writer (l) says, left their country to the Israelites, and went to a country, which is called to this...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way. And, behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? art thou come hither to torment us before the time? They...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way. And, behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? art thou come hither to torment us before the time? And...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And behold they cried out, saying,.... This is an instance and proof, of the wonderful power of Christ over the devils; and has therefore the note of admiration, "behold!" prefixed to it, that the devils themselves who had took possession of these men, and made them so fierce and cruel, and outrageous, that there was no passing the way for them;...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And there was a good way off from them,.... "Nigh unto the mountains", as Mark says, or "on the mountain", as Luke, bordering on the sea shore; so that though it was at some distance, yet within sight. The Vulgate Latin, and the Hebrew edition of Munster read, "not far off"; and the Persic version, "near them": which agree with the accounts of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And there was a good way off from them an herd of many swine feeding. The owners of these animals had no business to have any swine there; swine were forbidden in that holy country, and they should not have been kept there.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
So the devils besought him, saying,.... All the devils, the whole legion of them, who perceiving that they must be obliged to go out of these men, and after they had earnestly entreated they might not be sent out of the country where they had long been, and had made themselves masters of the tempers, dispositions, and circumstances of the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
So the devils besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, suffer us to go away into the herd of swine. What a wonderful creature a man is, as compared with an animal! A legion of devils could be packed away into these two men, but they needed a whole herd of swine to contain them all. How much greater is a man than a beast; that is to say, how much...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Saying, If thou, cast us out, suffer us to go away into the herd of swine. And he said unto them, Go. He never wastes words on demons.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And he said unto them, go, c]. He gave them leave, as God did to Satan, in the case of Job for without divine permission, these evil spirits cannot do anything to the bodies, souls, or estates of men: they could not enter into the swine without leave, and much less do things of greater moment and consequence; and therefore are not to be feared, or...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he said unto then, Go. Jesus never wastes words upon devils; he is always short and sharp with them: “Go.” Mat_8:32. And when they were come out, they went into the herd of swine: and, behold, the whole herd of swine ran violently down a steep place into the sea, and perished in the waters. The proverb has it, “They run fast whom the devil...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when they were come out, they went into the herd of swine: and, behold, the whole herd of swine ran violently down a steep place into the sea, and perished in the waters. And they that kept them fled, and went their ways into the city, and told every thing, and what was befallen to the possessed of the devils. And, behold, the whole city came...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And they that kept them fled,.... The hog herds, men of very low life, and whose employment was very infamous and reproachful, as has been observed. These, amazed at what they had seen, distressed with the loss of the swine, and so of their employment, and frightened also lest they should incur the blame and displeasure of their masters, ran away...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And they that kept them fled, and went their ways into the city, and told every thing, and what was befallen to the possessed of the devils. And, behold, the whole city came out to meet Jesus: You feel that they are going to worship him, or at least to ask him to come, and teach them the way of salvation; nothing of the sort.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And behold, the whole city,.... The inhabitants of it, not every individual person, but the greater number of them, or, at least, a very great number of them. Luke says, "the whole multitude of the country of the Gadarenes round about": for as the news was carried both into the city and country, great numbers flocked from all parts, and came out...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when they saw him, they besought him that he would depart out of their coasts. And there are many still who try all they can to get Christ to go away from them. Woe be to them if he grants their desire!