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Mark 3:20
And the multitude cometh together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread.
And the multitude cometh together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread.
MARK 3:20 e;rcetai {B} The singular number, read by early witnesses of the Alexandrian and the Western types of text, was altered in most witnesses to the plural, which is the easier reading followin...
Verse 20. _EAT BREAD._] Had no time to take any necessary refreshment....
THEY COULD NOT SO MUCH AS EAT BREAD - Their time and attention were so occupied that they were obliged to forego their regular meals. The affairs of religion may so occupy the attention of ministers a...
CHAPTER 3 _ 1. In the synagogue. The man with the withered hand healed. (Mark 3:1. Matthew 12:9; Luke 6:6 .)_ 2. The Withdrawal of the Servant. Many healed. ...
THE ANSWER OF JESUS TO THE VERDICT OF THE JERUSALEM SCRIBES AND THE INTERVENTION OF HIS FAMILY. The introduction of this section would naturally link with Mark 3:6. Jesus returns home (presumably, to...
THE CLASH OF IDEAS (Mark 3:1-6)...
Jesus went into a house; and once again so dense a crowd collected that they could not even eat bread. When his own people heard What was going on, they went out to restrain him, for they said, "He ha...
AGAIN. Referring back to Mark 3:7. COULD NOT.. found themselves unable. NOT. Greek. _me_. App-105....
How can Satan cast out Satan? 20. _the multitude cometh together again_ i. e. at Capernaum, which, had now become our Lord's temporary home....
ΣΥΝΈΡΧΕΤΑΙ ΠΆΛΙΝ Ὁ ὌΧΛΟΣ. The πάλιν looks back to Mark 3:7-8. The crowd, with the freedom of Orientals (Trench, _Parables_, p. 302n.; Tristram, _Eastern Customs in Bible Lands_, p. 36), came in and fi...
VER 19. ------- AND THEY WENT INTO AN HOUSE. 20. AND THE MULTITUDE COMETH TOGETHER AGAIN, SO THAT THEY COULD NOT SO MUCH AS EAT BREAD. 21. AND WHEN HIS FRIENDS HEARD OF IT, THEY WENT OUT TO LAY HOLD O...
_JESUS AND THE RULER OF DEMONS MARK 3:20-30:_ When Jesus went home the crowd gathered again. There was not even an opportunity for Jesus to eat. Sadly when Jesus' own family heard what He was doing th...
ΣΥΝΈΡΧΕΤΑΙ _praes. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΣΥΝΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G4905) сходиться вместе, hist, _praes._ ΔΎΝΑΣΘΑΙ _praes. med. (dep.) inf. от_ ΔΎΝΑΜΑΙ (G1410) быть способным, вместе с ΏΣΤΕ (G5620) выражает текущи...
B. OPPOSITION 3:20-27 (1) From Friends 3:20-21 _TEXT 3:20-21_ And he cometh into a house. And the multitude cometh together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread. And when his friends...
And the multitude cometh together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread. For the exposition, see the notes at Matthew 12:22, and at Luke 11:21....
18 Simon was called "the Cananite" or "the Zealot" (which means the same) in order to distinguish him from Simon Peter. The term "Cananite" is easily confounded with "Canaanite", an inhabitant of Cana...
CHOICE OF THE TWELVE 1-6. The withered hand (Matthew 12:9; Luke 6:6). See on Mt....
A graphic touch derived from the personal reminiscences of Peter....
CHRIST IN THE BIBLE: MARK’S GOSPEL _KEITH SIMONS_ This commentary HAS BEEN through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 3 THE DAY FOR REST VERSES 1-5 Jesus obeyed God, his father, completely. Jesus did...
SO THAT THEY COULD NOT SO MUCH AS EAT BREAD. — The graphic touch, as if springing from actual reminiscence of that crowded scene, is eminently characteristic of St. Mark....
CHAPTER 3:20-27 (MARK 3:20) CHRIST AND BEELZEBUB "And the multitude cometh together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread. And when his friends heard it, they went out to lay hold on Him...
The traditional arrangement by which clause b forms part of Mark 3:19 is fatal to a true conception of the connection of events. The R. V [20], by making it begin a new section, though not a new verse...
BROTHER TO ALL WHO WILL Mark 3:20-35; Mark 4:1-9 The Pharisees circulated this infamous charge-not because they believed it, but to satisfy the questions that were being asked on all sides. What they...
This is one of the few occasions on which it is said that Christ was angry. Particularly note the reason for His anger: "When He had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved at the hardeni...
THE UNPARDONABLE SIN (BLASPHEMY AGAINST THE HOLY GHOST) Mark 3:20-30; Matthew 12:22-37; & Luke 11:14-23. Mark: “And they come into the house; and again a multitude comes together, so that they are not
(20) And the multitude cometh together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread. (21) And when his friends heard _of it,_ they went out to lay hold on him: for they said, He is beside himsel...
It is remarkable how tradition has contrived to injure the truth in touching the question of the method of the gospel we now enter on; for the current view which comes down to us from the ancients, st...
Mark 3:20._And they come into the house. Mark _undoubtedly takes in a somewhat extended period of time, when he passes from the miracles to that wicked conspiracy which the relatives of Christ formed...
Such was the question raised in the synagogue (chapter 3) on the occasion of the man with the withered hand. The Lord sets it publicly before their conscience; but neither heart nor conscience answere...
AND THE MULTITUDE COMING TOGETHER AGAIN,.... Either the multitude that were about the door of this house; insomuch that there was no room about, nor any coming near it, Mark 2:2, or the multitude that...
And the multitude cometh together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread. Ver. 20. _They could not so much as eat bread_] For when he was in the house to repose and refresh himself, they...
_And they went into a house_ It appears, from the manner in which Mark here connects this with the names of the apostles, that it happened very quickly after their being chosen. The other evangelists,...
NOT SO MUCH AS EAT BREAD; they had no time for their regular meals....
We have seen that the sabbath was made for the purpose of ministering to the needs of men. Now the Lord in the synagogue encountered a man who was in manifestly serious need. But his need meant nothin...
13-21 Christ calls whom he will; for his grace is his own. He had called the apostles to separate themselves from the crowd, and they came unto him. He now gave them power to heal sicknesses, and to...
OLBGrk; Ver. 20,21. There is no small dispute who are here called our Saviour's friends, oi par autou, those who were of him, whether it signifieth his neighbours, the citizens of his city, or his nea...
Mark 3:20 Then G2532 multitude G3793 together G4905 (G5736) again G3825 that G5620 they G846 could G1410 ...
OPPOSITION FROM FAMILY AND FRIENDS FROM THE PAST (3:19-21). This rather enigmatic passage prepares the way for and explains the ‘rejection' by Jesus of His mother and brothers in Mark 3:31. Knowing Hi...
‘And he comes into a house, and the great crowd comes together again so that they could not so much as eat food.' ‘He comes into a house.' The house may be that of Peter in Capernaum, or it may be th...
THE SECTION CONCLUDES WITH A SUMMARY OF THE CONTINUING MINISTRY (3:7-35). The first major section of Mark's Gospel (from Mark 1:1 to Mark 3:35) now concludes with: · A description of the continuing...
AMAZING SUCCESS BRINGS FERVENT OPPOSITION FROM HIS FAMILY AND FRIENDS (3:7-21). Jesus' success expands as He continues to build up His forces for the proclamation of the truth and against the powers...
CHRONOLOGY. At this point we find the largest gap in Mark's narrative. Shortly after the choice of the Twelve, the Sermon on the Mount was delivered. See notes on Matthew. On and after the return to C...
Mark 3:20. Cometh together again. If the last clause of Mark 3:19 means a return to Capernaum, ‘again ‘must refer to chap. Mark 2:1. They could not so much as eat bread. A vivid description of the thr...
SO THAT THEY COULD NOT SO MUCH AS EAT BREAD (ωστε μη δυνασθα αυτους μηδε αρτον φαγειν). Note infinitive with ωστε. Apparently Jesus and the disciples indoors with the great crowd in the house and at...
CONTENTS: Jesus heals a withered hand on the Sabbath. Multitudes healed. The twelve chosen. The unpardonable sin. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Holy Spirit, Satan, disciples, man with the withered hand, Mary, J...
Mark 3:13. _He calleth to him whom he would._ He knew them as he knew Nathaniel; he knew their piety, he knew their worth. They followed him at first as hearers, having no thoughts of the glory that w...
THEN JESUS WENT HOME. Back to the house in Capernaum where they were staying....
_And He ordained twelve, that they should be with Him._ THIS WAS THE THIRD STAGE IN THE PREPARATION OF THE DISCIPLES FOR THE APOSTOLATE A certain number had been admitted at the beginning to terms of...
MARK—NOTE ON MARK 3:20 Jesus returns HOME, that is, to the place where he stayed in Capernaum (see note on 2:1). ⇐
RELIGIOUS LEADERS ACCUSE JESUS OF BEING UNDER SATAN'S POWER MATTHEW 12:24-37; MARK 3:20-30; LUKE 11:15-23; MATTHEW 12:24 But w
CHAPTER 3 1 _Christ healeth the withered hand_, 10 _and many other infirmities_ : 11 _rebuketh the unclean spirits_ : 13 _chooseth his twelve apostles_ : 22 _convinceth the blasphemy of casting out de...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ Mark 3:21. His friends.—His kinsfolk or near relatives. BESIDE HIMSELF.—In an ecstatic state. They thought He was carried away by His zeal and devotion beyond all self...
EXPOSITION This chapter begins with the record of another case of healing on the sabbath day; and it closes with the notice of a combination of the Pharisees with the Herodians to bring about the des...
And he entered again into the synagogue(Mark 3:1); This was on the Sabbath day. and there was a man there which had a withered hand. And they watched him, whether he would heal him on the Sabbath day...
John 4:31; Luke 6:17; Mark 3:9; Mark 6:31...
Again. Glancing back to the many notices of crowds in the preceding narrative. This reassembling of the multitudes, and its interference with the repast of Christ and the disciples, is peculiar to Mar...
To eat bread — That is, to take any subsistence....
Observe here, 1. How truly our Lord's words were verified, MY MEAT IS TO DO THE WILL OF HIM THAT SENT ME, John 4:34: for he and his apostles going into an house to refresh themselves in their hunger,...