The report of him (η ακοη αυτου). Vulgate, rumor. See Mt 14:1; 24:6. They had no telephones, telegraphs, newspapers or radi…

And they were all amazed, etc. The power of casting out devils was new to them. It was done by a word. He did it in his own name, and by h…

And immediately his fame spread abroad throughout all the region round about Galilee.

Immediately. That is, as soon as Jes…

The Venerable Bede: Since death first entered the world through the envy of the devil, it was right that the medicine of healin…

Mark again reports the reaction of the people (cf. v.22) as they asked themselves in amazement and alarm, “What is this?” Their answer stresses bot…

And immediately his fame spread abroad
Not only in the city of Capernaum, where these things were done, and where hi…

The devil is an unclean spirit because he has lost all the purity of his nature, because he acts in direct opposition to the Holy Spirit of God, an…