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Mark 5:7

King James Version (KJV)

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— D.L. Moody

Mark 5:7

Verse 7 of 43

Scripture focus

And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, [thou] Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not.

Mark 5:7 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Mark 5:7

Theological / Devotional

To do with thee. The challenge to Jesus’ authority (see ch. 1:27; see on ch. 2:10) really meant, “What right have you to interfere with me?” See on John 2:4.

Son. See Luke 1:35; John 1:1-3.

Most high God. See Acts 16:17; see on Gen. 14:18, 22. It would seem that the evil spirits were speaking directly through one of the demoniacs of Gadara to Christ, for Jesus addresses the “unclean spirit” rather than the man himself (see Mark 5:8). Accordingly, the recognition of Jesus as the “Son of the most high God” represents knowledge the spirits possessed, not the demoniacs.

I adjure. Gr. horkizo, “to administer an oath to.” The wording of Luke’s account is less graphic, “I beseech” (ch. 8:28).

Torment. Gr. basanizo, originally meaning “to test [metals] by the touchstone.” In the NT basanizo is used in the sense of inflicting pain or torture.

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