Mark 5:2-5

Mark gave many more details describing this man than either Matthew or Luke did. This reflects an eyewitness account and Mark’s special interest in demonic activity. Matthew wrote that there were two men, but Mark and Luke mentioned only the more outstanding of the two. Mark stressed this man’s great physical strength that had progressively increased, evidently due to the demons’ increasing hold on him. Now nothing could restrain him. The poor man was miserable in his condition.