Mark is more specific in his detail of the convulsion which seized the lad as he was coming to Jesus. He notes the convulsion as coming on at the demoniac's sight of our Lord. "When he saw him, straightway the spirit," etc. Also his falling on the ground, wallowing and foaming. We might expect the detail of these symptoms in Luke, the physician.

21 - 27. Peculiar to Mark. He gives the dialogue between Jesus and the boy's father, and relates the process of the cure in graphic detail.

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