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MARK 7:30 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
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“And when she was come to her house, she found the devil gone out, and her daughter laid upon the bed.”
She went home and found her child lying on the bed, and the demon gone — the verification of the healing is domestic and immediate: the woman goes home and finds exactly what Jesus declared. The child lying on the bed is the picture of natural rest rather than the violent, uncontrolled behavior of the possessed — the bed is now a place of peaceful rest rather than the tombs-and-hills wandering of the Gerasene man. The demon gone is the complete fulfillment of the request: the demon has left, not merely been suppressed.

Church Fathers on Mark 7:30

After that the Lord had finished His teaching concerning food, seeing that the Jews were incredulous, He enters into the country of the Gentiles, for the Jews being unfaithful, salvation turns itself to the Gentiles.

Theophylact · 11th century

But if He wished to do so and could not, it appears as if His will was impotent; it is not possible however that our Saviour’s will should not be fulfilled, nor can He will a thing, which He knows ought not be.

Pseudo-Augustine · 5th century · Quaest e Vet. et N. Test. 77

Having entered also into the house, He commanded His disciples not to betray who He was to anyone in this unknown region, that they, on whom He had bestowed the grace of healing, might learn by His example, as far as they could, to shrink from the glory of human praise in the shewing forth of their miracles; yet they were not to cease from the pious work of virtue, when either the faith of the good justly deserved that miracles should be done, or the unfaithfulness of the…

Bede · 8th century · in Marc., 2, 30
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