Mark 3:11

3:11 And whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they fell down before him and cried out, “You are the Son of God.”

Mark 5:5

5:5 Each night and every day among the tombs and in the mountains, he would cry out and cut himself with stones.

Mark 10:47

10:47 When he heard that it was Jesus the Nazarene, he began to shout, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!”

sn Unclean spirits refers to evil spirits.

tn Grk “to shout and to say.” The infinitive λέγειν (legein) is redundant here and has not been translated.

sn Jesus was more than a Nazarene to this blind person, who saw quite well that Jesus was Son of David. There was a tradition in Judaism that the Son of David (Solomon) had great powers of healing (Josephus, Ant. 8.2.5 [8.42-49]).

sn Have mercy on me is a request for healing. It is not owed the man. He simply asks for God’s kind grace.