And they brought him unto him: and when he saw him, straightway the spirit tare him; and he fell on the ground, and wallowed foaming.
And they brought him unto him: and when he saw him, straightway the spirit tare him. Just as the man with the legion of demons, "when he saw Jesus, ran and worshipped Him" (Mark 5:6), so this demon, when he saw Him, immediately "tare him." The feeling of terror and rage was the same in both cases.
And he fell on the ground, and wallowed foaming. Still Jesus does nothing, but keeps conversing with the father about the case-partly to have its desperate features told out by him who knew them best, in the hearing of the spectators; partly to let its virulence have time to show itself; and partly to deepen the exercise of the father's soul, to draw out his faith, and thus to prepare both him and the bystanders for what He was to do.