In this chapter, we have, I. Christ’s casting the legion of devils out of the man possessed, and suffering them to enter into the swine, Mark 5:1–20. II. Christ’s healing the woman with the bloody issue, in the way as he was going to raise Jairus’s daughter to life, Mark 5:21–43.

We have here an instance of Christ’s dispossessing the strong man armed, and disposing of him as he pleased, to make it appear that he was stronger than he.

The Gadarenes having desired Christ to leave their country, he did not stay to trouble them long, but presently went by water, as he came, back to the other side , and there much people gathered to him.

Diseases and deaths came into the world by the sin and disobedience of the first Adam; but by the grace of the second Adam both are conquered. Christ, having healed an incurable disease, here goes on to triumph over death, as in the beginning of the chapter he had triumphed over an outrageous…