After shrieking and convulsing him violently, the spirit came out. The boy became like a corpse, so that many said, “He is dead.”
We have here the story of Christ casting the devil out of a child, somewhat more fully related than it was in Mat 17:14, etc. Observe here, I. Christ's return to his disciples, and the perplexity he found them in. He laid aside his robes of glory, and came to look after his family, and to enquire what was become of them.
Commenting on Mark 9:14-29
And the spirit cried, and rent him sore,.... We rightly supply, "the spirit", as do the Syriac and Persic versions, "the demon"; for it was he, and not the child, that cried, and made an hideous noise, at his ejection; being filled with wrath and rage, that he must be obliged to quit the possession he had so long held; and therefore, in spite and...
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. (5) The nearer that the virtue of Christ is the far greater Satan rages.