And unclean spirits, when they saw him, fell down before him, and cried, saying, Thou art the Son of God.
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Gill's Exposition
And unclean spirits, when they saw him,.... That is, as the Syriac and Arabic versions read, "they who had unclean spirits": or, as the Ethiopic, "they that were possessed with unclean spirits"; as…
Unclean spirits - Persons who were possessed of evil spirits. Thou art the Son of God - The Son of God, by way of eminence. In this place it is equivalent to the Messiah, who was, among the Jews,…
Adam Clarke
Thou art the Son of God - Two MSS., and the later Syriac, have, Thou art the Christ, the Son of God. One of Stephens's MSS. has, Thou art the Holy One of God. A MS. in the library of Leicester has, συ…
Here, as before, we have our Lord Jesus busy at work in the synagogue first, and then by the sea side; to teach us that his presence should not be confined either to the one or to the other, but,…
Cambridge Bible
Thou art the Son of God In the Synagogue of Capernaum they had called Him the "Holy One of God" (Mar 1:24), they now acknowledge Him as the "Son of God" (comp. Luk 4:41). The force of the imperfect…
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