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They came to the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes. See also: Luke 8:26-39Matthew 8:28-34Mark 4:35When he had come out of the boat, immediately a man with an unclean spirit met him out of the tombs. See also: Mark 1:23Mark 5:8Isaiah 65:4He lived in the tombs. Nobody could bind him any more, not even with chains, See also: Isaiah 65:4Luke 8:29Daniel 4:32-33because he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been torn apart by him, and the fetters broken in pieces. Nobody had the strength to tame him. See also: James 3:7-8Always, night and day, in the tombs and in the mountains, he was crying out, and cutting himself with stones. See also: 1 Kings 18:28Job 2:7-8John 8:44When he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and bowed down to him, See also: James 2:19Psalms 66:3Luke 4:41and crying out with a loud voice, he said, “What have I to do with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, don’t torment me.” See also: Matthew 8:29Acts 16:17Matthew 4:3For he said to him, “Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!” See also: Acts 16:18Mark 1:25Mark 9:25-26He asked him, “What is your name?” He said to him, “My name is Legion, for we are many.” See also: Luke 8:30Mark 5:15Matthew 26:53He begged him much that he would not send them away out of the country. See also: Mark 3:22Mark 5:13Now on the mountainside there was a great herd of pigs feeding. See also: Isaiah 65:4Matthew 8:30Deuteronomy 14:8All the demons begged him, saying, “Send us into the pigs, that we may enter into them.” See also: Job 1:10-121 Peter 5:8Luke 22:31-32At once Jesus gave them permission. The unclean spirits came out and entered into the pigs. The herd of about two thousand rushed down the steep bank into the sea, and they were drowned in the sea. See also: Matthew 8:32Job 2:61 Peter 3:22Those who fed the pigs fled, and told it in the city and in the country. The people came to see what it was that had happened. See also: Luke 8:34Matthew 8:33They came to Jesus, and saw him who had been possessed by demons sitting, clothed, and in his right mind, even him who had the legion; and they were afraid. See also: Colossians 1:132 Timothy 1:71 Samuel 6:20-21Those who saw it declared to them what happened to him who was possessed by demons, and about the pigs. They began to beg him to depart from their region. See also: Matthew 8:34Mark 1:24Luke 8:37As he was entering into the boat, he who had been possessed by demons begged him that he might be with him. See also: Luke 8:38-39Philippians 1:23-24Mark 5:17He didn’t allow him, but said to him, “Go to your house, to your friends, and tell them what great things the Lord has done for you and how he had mercy on you.” See also: Psalms 66:16John 4:29Daniel 6:25-27He went his way, and began to proclaim in Decapolis how Jesus had done great things for him, and everyone marveled. See also: Mark 7:31Matthew 4:25When Jesus had crossed back over in the boat to the other side, a great multitude was gathered to him; and he was by the sea. See also: Matthew 9:1Mark 4:1Luke 8:40Behold, one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name, came; and seeing him, he fell at his feet See also: Luke 13:14Acts 18:17Mark 5:35-36and begged him much, saying, “My little daughter is at the point of death. Please come and lay your hands on her, that she may be made healthy, and live.” See also: Luke 13:13Mark 16:18Luke 4:40He went with him, and a great multitude followed him, and they pressed upon him on all sides. See also: Mark 5:31Mark 3:20Luke 7:6A certain woman who had a discharge of blood for twelve years, See also: Leviticus 15:25-27Luke 8:43-44Matthew 9:20-22and had suffered many things by many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better, but rather grew worse, See also: Jeremiah 30:12-13Jeremiah 8:22Job 13:4having heard the things concerning Jesus, came up behind him in the crowd and touched his clothes. See also: Acts 19:12Acts 5:15Matthew 14:36For she said, “If I just touch his clothes, I will be made well.” Immediately the flow of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her affliction. See also: Mark 5:34Mark 3:10Psalms 30:2Immediately Jesus, perceiving in himself that the power had gone out from him, turned around in the crowd and asked, “Who touched my clothes?” See also: Luke 6:19Luke 8:46Luke 5:17His disciples said to him, “You see the multitude pressing against you, and you say, ‘Who touched me?’” See also: Luke 8:45Luke 9:12He looked around to see her who had done this thing. But the woman, fearing and trembling, knowing what had been done to her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the truth. See also: Luke 8:47Mark 4:41Psalms 116:12-14He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace, and be cured of your disease.” See also: Luke 8:48Matthew 9:22Luke 7:50While he was still speaking, people came from the synagogue ruler’s house, saying, “Your daughter is dead. Why bother the Teacher any more?” See also: Luke 8:49John 11:39Luke 7:6-7But Jesus, when he heard the message spoken, immediately said to the ruler of the synagogue, “Don’t be afraid, only believe.” See also: Luke 8:50Matthew 9:28-29John 11:40He allowed no one to follow him except Peter, James, and John the brother of James. See also: Mark 14:33Acts 9:40Mark 9:2He came to the synagogue ruler’s house, and he saw an uproar, weeping, and great wailing. See also: Luke 8:52-53Matthew 9:23-24Mark 5:22When he had entered in, he said to them, “Why do you make an uproar and weep? The child is not dead, but is asleep.” See also: Acts 20:101 Thessalonians 5:10John 11:11-13They ridiculed him. But he, having put them all out, took the father of the child, her mother, and those who were with him, and went in where the child was lying. See also: Nehemiah 2:19Genesis 19:14Psalms 22:7Taking the child by the hand, he said to her, “Talitha cumi!” which means, being interpreted, “Girl, I tell you, get up!” See also: Mark 1:31Luke 7:14-15John 5:28-29Immediately the girl rose up and walked, for she was twelve years old. They were amazed with great amazement. See also: Mark 4:41Mark 7:37Acts 3:10-13He strictly ordered them that no one should know this, and commanded that something should be given to her to eat. See also: Matthew 8:4Mark 7:36Mark 1:43
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)14 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Mark 5:2
Ver. 2. Ven. Bede gives a beautiful explanation of this miracle. He says that it represents the Gentiles, who were converted to the faith by the apostles. The legion represents the innumerable vices to which they were subject, neither restrained by the laws of God nor man, but breaking through every restraint, and wallowing in all kinds of uncleanness. Ven. Bede. — The three evangelists agree in the expulsion of the legion of devils, except that S. Matt. makes mention of two demoniacs, and SS. Mark and Luke only of one. The difficulty is thus solved by S. Austin. S. Mark and S. Luke only mention one, as being more generally known, and particularly frightful in the neighbourhood. S. Aug.
↑ 2Mark 5:7
Ver. 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 S. Luke viii. 31. Wi.
↑ 7Mark 5:9
Ver. 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. Wi.
↑ 9Mark 5:13
Ver. 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.
↑ 13Mark 5:17
Ver. 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. Theophy. — 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 under Vespasian.
↑ 17Mark 5:18
Ver. 18. That he might be with him; i.e. as one of his disciples. S. Amb. 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. Wi.
↑ 18Mark 5:19
Ver. 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. Dion. Carth.
↑ 19Mark 5:20
Ver. 20. Decapolis, a territory on the eastern borders of the sea of Tiberias, and is so called, from ten principal towns that compose it. V.
↑ 20Mark 5:23
Ver. 23. S. Matt. says: my daughter is even now dead. The sense in both is exactly the same. S. Matt. attended rather to the thoughts of Jairus, than to his words; for, as he left her dying, he could not reasonably hope to find her still in the same state; and, as he expected she was already dead, when he spoke this to Jesus, S. Matt. relates what the man thought at that instant, not what he said. S. Aug.
↑ 23Mark 5:28
Ver. 28. Touch his garment. Almighty God is pleased to give occasionally to the relics and clothes of his pious and faithful servants, a degree of virtue. See Acts v, and xix, where the very shadow of S. Peter, and the handkerchiefs and aprons that had touched the body of S. Paul, and were brought to the sick, cured their diseases, and banished the wicked spirits. See S. Chrysostom, T. 5.
contra Gent. in vit. Babylœ. S. Basil saith: "he that toucheth the bone of a martyr, receiveth in some degree holiness of the grace or virtue that is therein.
Bas. in Psalm cxv.
↑ 28Mark 5:30
Ver. 30. Virtue that hath proceeded from him. Virtue to heal this woman's malady proceeded from Christ, though she touched but his coat: so when the saints by their relics and garments perform miracles, the grace and force thereof cometh from our Saviour; they being but the means of instruments of the same. B.
↑ 30Mark 5:35
Ver. 35. Ruler of the synagogue. His house is understood.
↑ 35Mark 5:36
Ver. 36. Only believe. Dissenters grossly abuse this and other similar texts of Scripture, to prove that faith alone will suffice for justification; whereas God only declares, that he requires a faith in his almighty power for the performance of miracles, and that without this necessary predisposition, he will not do any miracles. See v. 5, of the following chapter.
↑ 36Mark 5:41
Ver. 41. Only three resurrections from the dead are mentioned as performed by our Saviour: one just dead; one carried out to be buried; and Lazarus, already in his tomb. These represent the different states of sinners dead in sin, some more desperate than others. To such as have been for years in sin, and have none to intercede for them, we must apply the words of Christ, suffer the dead to bury the dead. Ven. Bede, and S. Aug. de verb. Dom. serm. 44.
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↑ 41License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses