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Jesus Expels an Unclean Spirit

Mark 1:26

In 9 translations

BSB
At this, the unclean spirit threw the man into convulsions and came out with a loud shriek.
KJV
And when the unclean spirit had torn him, and cried with a loud voice, he came out of him.
WEB
The unclean spirit, convulsing him and crying with a loud voice, came out of him.
ASV
And the unclean spirit, tearing him and crying with a loud voice, came out of him.
LSV
and the unclean spirit having convulsed him, and having cried with a great voice, came forth out of him,
YLT
and the unclean spirit having torn him, and having cried with a great voice, came forth out of him,
DBY
And the unclean spirit, having torn him, and uttered a cry with a loud voice, came out of him.
DRC
And the unclean spirit tearing him, and crying out with a loud voice, went out of him.
GNV
And the vncleane spirit tare him, and cried with a loude voyce, and came out of him.

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  • NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles read φωνῆσαν (“having shouted”); Textus Receptus, Byzantine text read κράξαν (“having cried”).
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  • SBLGNT: φωνῆσαν. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read φωνῆσαν; Robinson–Pierpont read κράξαν.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT
καὶ σπαράξαν αὐτὸν τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἀκάθαρτον καὶ φωνῆσαν φωνῇ μεγάλῃ ἐξῆλθεν ἐξ αὐτοῦ.
RP2018
Καὶ σπαράξαν αὐτὸν τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἀκάθαρτον καὶ κράξαν φωνῇ μεγάλῃ, ἐξῆλθεν ἐξ αὐτοῦ.
TR-Boyd
Καὶ σπαράξαν αὐτὸν τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἀκάθαρτον καὶ κράξαν φωνῇ μεγάλῃ, ἐξῆλθεν ἐξ αὐτοῦ.
SCR1894
και σπαραξαν αυτον το πνευμα το ακαθαρτον και κραξαν φωνη μεγαλη εξηλθεν εξ αυτου

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  • Mark 9:26After shrieking and convulsing him violently, the spirit came out. The boy became like a corpse, so that many said, “He is dead.”
  • Mark 9:20So they brought him, and seeing Jesus, the spirit immediately threw the boy into a convulsion. He fell to the ground and rolled around, foaming at the mouth.
  • Luke 11:22But when someone stronger attacks and overpowers him, he takes away the armor in which the man trusted, and then he divides up his plunder.
  • Luke 9:39A spirit keeps seizing him, and he screams abruptly. It throws him into convulsions so that he foams at the mouth. It keeps mauling him and rarely departs from him.
  • Luke 9:42Even while the boy was approaching, the demon slammed him to the ground in a convulsion. But Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, healed the boy, and gave him back to his father.

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