Mark 5 · Verse 19

Mark 5:19

Howbeit Jesus suffered him not, but saith unto him, Go home to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and hath had compassion on thee.
Mark 5:19, King James Version

Mark 5:19 in other translations

BSBBut Jesus would not allow him. “Go home to your own people,” He said, “and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and what mercy He has shown you.”
WEBHe didn’t allow him, but said to him, “Go to your house, to your friends, and tell them what great things the Lord has done for you and how he had mercy on you.”
ASVAnd he suffered him not, but saith unto him, Go to thy house unto thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and how he had mercy on thee.
YLTand Jesus did not suffer him, but saith to him, ‘Go away to thy house, unto thine own friends, and tell them how great things the Lord did to thee, and dealt kindly with thee;
DARBYAnd he suffered him not, but says to him, Go to thine home to thine own people, and tell them how great things the Lord has done for thee, and has had mercy on thee.
BBEAnd he would not let him, but said to him, Go to your house, to your friends, and give them news of the great things the Lord has done for you, and how he had mercy on you.
WebsterYet Jesus suffered him not, but saith to him, Go home to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and hath had compassion on thee.

What does Mark 5:19 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
19. Howbeit, Jesus suffered him not, &c.--To be a missionary for Christ, in the region where he was so well known and so long dreaded, was a far nobler calling than to follow Him where nobody had ever heard of him, and where other trophies not less illustrious could be raised by the same power and grace.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Barnes' Notes
Verse 19. Jesus suffered him not. Various reasons have been conjectured why Jesus did not suffer this malt to go with him. It might be, that he wished to leave him among the people, as a conclusive evidence of his power to work miracles. It might be that the man feared that if Jesus left him the devils would return, and that Jesus told him to remain to show to him that the cure was complete and that he had power over the devils when absent, as well as when present. But the probable reason is, that he desired to restore him to his family and friends. He was probably a man of influence, and Jesus was unwilling to delay the joy of his friends, and prolong their anxiety, by suffering him to remain away from them.

(d) "and tell them" Ps 66:16, Isa 38:19

Albert Barnes, 1834 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 19 Suffered him not - Ὁ δε Ιησους, Howbeit Jesus, is omitted by ABKLM, twenty-seven others, both the Syriac, both the Persic, Coptic, Gothic, Vulgate, and one of the Itala. Mill and Bengel approve of the omission, and Griesbach leaves it out of the text. Go home to thy friends, etc. - This was the cause why Jesus would not permit him to follow him now, because he would not have the happiness of his relatives deferred, who must exceedingly rejoice at seeing the wonders which the Lord had wrought.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Mark 5:1-20

Some openly wilful sinners are like this madman. The commands of the law are as chains and fetters, to restrain sinners from their wicked courses; but they break those bands in sunder; and it is an evidence of the power of the devil in them. A legion of soldiers consisted of six thousand men, or more. What multitudes of fallen spirits there must be, and all enemies to God and man, when here was a legion in one poor…

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Mark 5:19 in the original Greek

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

οὐκouknotG3756
ἀφῆκενaphēkenHe did permitG863
αὐτόν,autonhim,G846
ἀλλὰallabutG235
λέγειlegeiHe saysG3004
αὐτῷ·autōto him;G846
ὕπαγεhupagedo goG5217
εἰςeistoG1519
τὸνtontheG3588
οἶκόνoikonhomeG3624
σουsouof youG4771
πρὸςprostoG4314
τοὺςtous<the>G3588
σοὺςsousyour ownG4771
καὶkaiandG2532
ἀπάγγειλονapangeilondo declareG518
αὐτοῖςautoisto themG846
ὅσαhosaas much asG3745
ὁhotheG3588
κύριόςkuriosLordG2962
σοιsoifor youG4771
πεποίηκενpepoiēkenhas doneG4160
καὶkaiandG2532
ἠλέησένēleēsenHe had mercy onG1653
σε.¶seyou.G4771

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Mark 5:19

  • Psalms 66:16

    Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul.

  • John 4:29

    Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?

  • Daniel 6:25-27

    Then king Darius wrote unto all people, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth; Peace be multiplied unto you. I make a decree, That in every dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel: for he is the living God, and stedfast for ever, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed, and his dominion shall be even unto the end. He delivereth and rescueth, and he worketh signs and wonders in heaven and in earth, who hath delivered Daniel from the power of the lions.

  • Daniel 4:1-3

    Nebuchadnezzar the king, unto all people, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth; Peace be multiplied unto you. I thought it good to shew the signs and wonders that the high God hath wrought toward me. How great are his signs! and how mighty are his wonders! his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion is from generation to generation.

  • Isaiah 38:9-20

    The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness: I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years. I said, I shall not see the Lord, even the Lord, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world. Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd’s tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me. …

  • Acts 22:1-21

    Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defence which I make now unto you. (And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he saith,) I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day. And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women. …

  • Daniel 4:37

    Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.

  • Acts 26:4-29

    My manner of life from my youth, which was at the first among mine own nation at Jerusalem, know all the Jews; Which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee. And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers: Unto which promise our twelve tribes, instantly serving God day and night, hope to come. For which hope’s sake, king Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews. …

  • Jonah 2:1-10

    Then Jonah prayed unto the Lord his God out of the fish’s belly, And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the Lord, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice. For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me. Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple. …

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Go home.
Ps 66:16; Isa 38:9-20; Da 4:1-3,37; 6:25-27; Jon 2:1-10; Joh 4:29
Ac 22:1-21; 26:4-29

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Context

  • Mark 5:18

    And when he was come into the ship, he that had been possessed with the devil prayed him that he might be with him.

  • Mark 5:19

    Howbeit Jesus suffered him not, but saith unto him, Go home to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and hath had compassion on thee.

  • Mark 5:20

    And he departed, and began to publish in Decapolis how great things Jesus had done for him: and all men did marvel.

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Mark 5:19 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Mas Jesús no le permitió, sino le dijo: Vete á tu casa, á los tuyos, y cuéntales cuán grandes cosas el Señor ha hecho contigo, y cómo ha tenido misericordia de ti.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et il ne le lui permit pas, mais lui dit: Va dans ta maison, vers les tiens, et raconte-leur tout ce que le Seigneur t’a fait, et comment il a usé de miséricorde envers toi.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und er ließ es ihm nicht zu, sondern spricht zu ihm: Gehe hin nach deinem Hause zu den Deinigen und verkünde ihnen, wieviel der Herr an dir getan, und wie er sich deiner erbarmt hat.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		et non admisit eum, sed ait illi: Vade in domum tuam ad tuos, et annuntia illis quanta tibi Dominus fecerit, et misertus sit tui.