Mark 1:23 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; and he cried out, A man with an unclean spirit - This demoniac is only mentioned by Mark and Luke, Luke 4:33. It seems the man had lucid intervals; else he could not have been admitted into the synagogue. Unclean or impure spirit - a common epithet for those fallen spirits: but here it may mean, one who filled the heart of him he possessed with Lascivious thoughts, images, desires, and propensities. By giving way to the first attacks of such a spirit, he may soon get in, and take full possession of the whole soul.

Mark 1:23

23 And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; and he cried out,