“And in the synagogue there was a man, which had a spirit of an unclean devil, and cried out with a loud voice,”
In the synagogue there was a man possessed by a demon, an impure spirit. He cried out at the top of his voice — the demonic disruption of the Capernaum synagogue service is the same event as Mark 1:23–26. The impure spirit cannot remain passive in Jesus' presence — the same pattern as throughout Mark. The crying out communicates both the spirit's recognition of Jesus and its resistance to the encounter.
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