Mark 1:25

Revised Standard Version

But Jesus rebuked him, saying, "Be silent, and come out of him!"

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Jesus rebuked him saying, “Be silent,

King James Version (1611)
And Iesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him.

King James Version
And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him.

English Standard Version
But Jesus rebuked him, saying, "Be silent, and come out of him!"

New American Standard Bible
And Jesus rebuked him, saying, "Be quiet, and come out of him!"

New Century Version
Jesus commanded the evil spirit, "Be quiet! Come out of the man!"

Amplified Bible
Jesus rebuked him, saying, "Be quiet (muzzled, silenced), and come out of him!"

New American Standard Bible (1995)
And Jesus rebuked him, saying, "Be quiet, and come out of him!"

Legacy Standard Bible
And Jesus rebuked him, saying, "Be quiet, and come out of him!"

Berean Standard Bible
But Jesus rebuked the spirit. "Be silent!" He said. "Come out of him!"

Contemporary English Version
Jesus told the evil spirit, "Be quiet and come out of the man!"

Complete Jewish Bible
But Yeshua rebuked the unclean spirit, "Be quiet and come out of him!"

Darby Translation
And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace and come out of him.

Easy-to-Read Version
Jesus, his voice full of warning, said, "Be quiet, and come out of him!"

Geneva Bible (1587)
And Iesus rebuked him, saying, Holde thy peace, and come out of him.

George Lamsa Translation
And Jesus rebuked him and said, Be silent, and come out of him.

Good News Translation
Jesus ordered the spirit, "Be quiet, and come out of the man!"

Lexham English Bible
And Jesus rebuked him, saying, "Be silent, and come out of him!"

Literal Translation
And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Be quiet, and come out of him.

American Standard Version
And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him.

Bible in Basic English
And Jesus said to him sharply, Be quiet, and come out of him.

Hebrew Names Version
Yeshua rebuked him, saying, "Be quiet, and come out of him!"

International Standard Version
But Jesus rebuked him, saying, "Be quiet, and come out of him!"Mark 1:34;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
And Jeshu restrained him, and said, Close thy mouth, and come forth from him.

Murdock Translation
And Jesus rebuked him, and said: Shut thy mouth, and come out of him.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Iesus rebuked hym, saying: holde thy peace, and come out of hym.

English Revised Version
And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him.

World English Bible
Jesus rebuked him, saying, "Be quiet, and come out of him!"

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace and come out of him.

Weymouth's New Testament
But Jesus reprimanded him, saying, "Silence! come out of him."

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Jhesus thretenede hym, and seide, Wex doumbe, and go out of the man.

Update Bible Version
And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold your peace, and come out of him.

Webster's Bible Translation
And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him.

New English Translation
But Jesus rebuked him: "Silence! Come out of him!"

New King James Version
But Jesus rebuked him, saying, "Be quiet, and come out of him!"

New Living Translation
But Jesus reprimanded him. "Be quiet! Come out of the man," he ordered.

New Life Bible
Jesus spoke sharp words to the demon and said, "Do not talk! Come out of the man!"

New Revised Standard
But Jesus rebuked him, saying, "Be silent, and come out of him!"

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And Jesus rebuked him, saying- Be silenced, and come forth out of him!

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Jesus threatened him, saying: Speak no more, and go out of the man.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And Iesus rebuked him sayinge: hoolde thy peace and come out of him.

Young's Literal Translation
And Jesus rebuked him, saying, `Be silenced, and come forth out of him,'

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And Iesus reproued him, and sayde: holde thy tonge, and departe out of him.

Mace New Testament (1729)
and Jesus threatned him, be mute, said he, and come out.

THE MESSAGE
Jesus shut him up: "Quiet! Get out of him!" The afflicting spirit threw the man into spasms, protesting loudly—and got out.

Simplified Cowboy Version
But Jesus shushed him with a look and without raising his voice he said, "Be quiet and come out."

Contextual Overview

²³ And immediately there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; ²⁴ and he cried out, "What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are, the Holy One of God." ²⁵ But Jesus rebuked him, saying, "Be silent, and come out of him!" ²⁶ And the unclean spirit, convulsing him and crying with a loud voice, came out of him. ²⁷ And they were all amazed, so that they questioned among themselves, saying, "What is this? A new teaching! With authority he commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey him." ²⁸ And at once his fame spread everywhere throughout all the surrounding region of Galilee.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

rebuked: Mark 1:34, Mark 3:11, Mark 3:12, Mark 9:25, Psalms 50:16, Luke 4:35, Luke 4:41, Acts 16:17

Reciprocal: Psalms 44:4 - command Zechariah 3:2 - The Lord rebuke Matthew 8:8 - but Matthew 8:16 - and he Mark 5:8 - General Acts 16:18 - being

Cross-References

Genesis 1:8
And God called the firmament Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day.

Genesis 1:10
God called the dry land Earth, and the waters that were gathered together he called Seas. And God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:19
And there was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.

Genesis 1:20
And God said, "Let the waters bring forth swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the firmament of the heavens."

Job 26:13
By his wind the heavens were made fair; his hand pierced the fleeing serpent.

Jeremiah 27:5
"It is I who by my great power and my outstretched arm have made the earth, with the men and animals that are on the earth, and I give it to whomever it seems right to me.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Jesus rebuked him,.... Checking his insolence, despising his flattery, and refusing to receive a testimony from him; and which he wanted not, lest it should be thought he had a familiarity and confederacy with him:

saying, hold thy peace; stop thy mouth, I need no such witness as thine, nor thy praises; I am not to be soothed by thy flattery, nor is my mouth to be stopped, or power restrained, by such methods: wherefore he adds,

and come out of him: I will not let thee alone, thy encomiums of me shall not prevail upon me to leave thee in the quiet possession of the man; I will give a testimony of who I am, by the dispossessing of thee out of this man. In imitation of this authoritative power of Christ, the Jewish exorcists, in their pretensions to cast out devils, use a like form: so they tell us q, that R. Simeon ben Jochai, cast a devil out of Caesar's daughter, saying, "Ben Talmion" (which was the name of the devil) צא, "come out, Ben Talmion come out"; and he came out of her; :-.

q T. Bab. Meilab, fol. 17. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See also Luke 4:31-37.

Mark 1:21

And they went into Capernaum - For the situation of Capernaum see the notes at Matthew 4:13.

Straightway - Immediately. On the following Sabbath.

The synagogue - See the notes at Matthew 4:23.

And taught - In the synagogue, the presiding elder, after reading the Scriptures, invited anyone who chose to address the people, Acts 13:15. Though our Saviour was not a “priest” of the Levitical order or an “officer” of the synagogue, yet we find him often availing himself of this privilege, and delivering his doctrines to the Jews.

Mark 1:22

He taught them as one that had authority ... - See the notes at Matthew 7:29.

Mark 1:23

A man with an unclean spirit - See Matthew 4:24. It is probable that this man had lucid intervals, or he would not have been admitted into the synagogue. When there, one of his fits came on, and he suddenly cried out.

Mark 1:24

Let us alone - Though only one impure spirit is mentioned as possessing this man, yet that spirit speaks also in the name of others.

They were leagued together in the work of evil, and this one knew that if he was punished, others would also share the same fate.

What have we to do with thee? - See the notes at Matthew 8:29. By this the spirit meant to say that, if Jesus cast him out, he would use an improper interference. But this was untrue. The possession of the man was a direct assault upon God and his works. Jesus came to destroy the works of the devil, and Jesus had a right, therefore, to liberate the captive, and to punish him who had possessed him. So Satan still considers it an infringement of his rights when God frees a “sinner” from bondage and destroys his influence over the soul. So he still asks to be let alone, and to be suffered to lead people captive at his will.

Art thou come to destroy us? - Implying that this could not be the intention of the “benevolent” Messiah; that to be cast out of that man would, in fact, be his destruction, and that therefore he might be suffered still to remain. Or it may imply, as in Matthew 8:29, that the time of their destruction had not come, and that he ought not to destroy them before that.

I know thee who thou art - Evil spirits seem to have been acquainted at once with the Messiah. Besides, they had learned from his miracles that he was the Messiah, and had power over them.

The Holy One of God - The Messiah. See Daniel 9:24. Jesus is called “the Holy One of God” because:

1. Jesus was eminently pure.
2. Because Jesus was the only begotten Son of God - equal with the Father. And,
3. Because Jesus was anointed (set apart) to the work of the Messiah, the mediator between God and man.

Mark 1:25

And Jesus rebuked him - Chided him, or commanded him, with a threatening.

This was not the man that Jesus rebuked, but the spirit, for he instantly commanded the same being to come out of the man. In all this, Jesus did not once address the man. His conversation was with the evil spirit, proving conclusively that it was not a mere disease or mental derangement - for how could the Son of God hold converse with “disease” or “insanity?” - but that he conversed with a “being” who also conversed, reasoned, cavilled, felt, resisted, and knew him. There are, therefore, evil spirits, and those spirits have taken possession of human beings.

Hold thy peace - Greek, “Be muzzled.” “Restrain thyself.” “Cease from complaints, and come out of the man.” This was a very signal proof of the power of Jesus, to be able by a word to silence an evil angel, and, against his will, to compel him to leave a man whom he delighted to torment.

Mark 1:26

And when the unclean spirit ... - Still malignant, though doomed to obey - submitting because he was obliged to, not because he chose - he exerted his last power, inflicted all the pain he could, and then bowed to the Son of God and came out.

This is the nature of an evil disposition. Though compelled to obey, though prevented by the command and providence of God from doing what it “would,” yet, in seeming to obey, it does all the ill it can, and makes even the appearance of obedience the occasion for increased crime and mischief.

Mark 1:27, Mark 1:28

And they were all amazed ... - The power of casting out devils was new to them.

It was done by a word. Jesus did it in his own name and by his own authority. This proved that he was superior to all the unclean spirits. In consequence, Jesus’ fame spread throughout all the country, and the impression became prevalent that he was the Messiah.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 25. And Jesus rebuked him — A spirit of this cast will only yield to the sovereign power of the Son of God. All watchings, fasting, and mortifications, considered in themselves, will do little or no good. Uncleanness, of every description, will only yield to the rebuke of God.