9:25 Now when Jesus saw that a crowd was quickly gathering, he rebuked 3 the unclean spirit, 4 saying to it, “Mute and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him and never enter him again.”
1 tn Grk “And.” Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the implied result of previous action(s) in the narrative.
2 tn Grk “his”; the referent (John the Baptist) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
3 tn Or “commanded” (often with the implication of a threat, L&N 33.331).
4 sn Unclean spirit refers to an evil spirit.