Mark 5:14 (BSB)
Those tending the pigs ran off and reported this in the town and countryside, and the people went out to see what had happened.
Commentary on Mark 5:14
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Mark 5:1-20: We have here an instance of Christ's dispossessing the strong man armed, and disposing of him as he pleased, to make it appear that he was stronger than he. This he did when he was come to the other side, whither he went through a storm; his business there was to rescue this poor creature out of the hands of Satan, and when he had done that, he returned.
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Mark 5:14: And they that fed the swine,.... Not the owners, but the keepers of them, the swine herds, "fled"; being astonished at the power of Christ, affrighted at the noise of the devils, and terrified at the sight and loss of the swine: and told it in the city and country; or "in the fields": they went into the city of Gadara, and told the story...
- Adam Clarke (Methodist), Clarke's Commentary on the Bible on Mark 5:14: The swine - Instead of τους χοιρους, BCDL, three others, Syriac, Coptic, Ethiopic, Vulgate, and Itala, read αυτους, them - And they that fed Them fled. Griesbach has adopted this reading.
- John Lightfoot (Puritan), Horae Hebraicae et Talmudicae on Mark 5:14: [Told it in the country.] Told it in the fields. But to whom? To them that laboured, or that travelled in the fields? So chapter 6:36: That they may go away into the 'fields' round about, and buy themselves bread. From whom, I pray, should they buy in the fields? And verse 56: And wheresoever they entered into towns or 'fields,' they laid the sick in the streets, or markets.