Mark 6:1-4
JESUS AT NAZARETH. Another tour of Galilee:... [ Continue Reading ]
JESUS AT NAZARETH. Another tour of Galilee:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE WENT OUT FROM THENCE AND CAME INTO HIS OWN COUNTRY; AND HIS DISCIPLES FOLLOW HIM.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN THE SABBATH-DAY WAS COME, HE BEGAN TO TEACH IN THE SYNAGOGUE; AND MANY HEARING HIM WERE ASTONISHED, SAYING, FROM WHENCE HATH THIS MAN THESE THINGS? AND WHAT WISDOM IS THIS WHICH IS GIVEN UNTO HIM, THAT EVEN SUCH MIGHTY WORKS ARE WROUGHT BY HIS HANDS?... [ Continue Reading ]
IS NOT THIS THE CARPENTER, THE SON OF MARY, THE BROTHER OF JAMES, AND JOSES, AND OF JUDA, AND SIMON? AND ARE NOT HIS SISTERS HERE WITH US? AND THEY WERE OFFENDED AT HIM.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT JESUS SAID UNTO THEM, A PROPHET IS NOT WITHOUT HONOR BUT IN HIS OWN COUNTRY, AND AMONG HIS OWN KIN, AND IN HIS OWN HOUSE. From thence, from Capernaum and its vicinity, Jesus went away. The city which He had chosen as His home during His Galilean ministry had had ample opportunity of hearing Him... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE COULD THERE DO NO MIGHTY WORK, SAVE THAT HE LAID HIS HANDS UPON A FEW SICK FOLK AND HEALED THEM.... [ Continue Reading ]
The result of the opposition:... [ Continue Reading ]
a. AND HE MARVELED BECAUSE OF THEIR UNBELIEF. Jesus had come with an open hand to distribute from His own bounty and that of His Father. The reception accorded Him shut off the people from the gifts of His mercy. Unbelief hindered the exhibition of the Lord's miraculous power. Unbelief always stops... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE CALLED UNTO HIM THE TWELVE, AND BEGAN TO SEND THEM FORTH BY TWO AND TWO; AND GAVE THEM POWER OVER UNCLEAN SPIRITS;... [ Continue Reading ]
THE MISSION OF THE TWELVE. Preparations for their journey:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND COMMANDED THEM THAT THEY SHOULD TAKE NOTHING FOR THEIR JOURNEY, SAVE A STAFF ONLY; NO SCRIP, NO BREAD, NO MONEY IN THEIR PURSE,... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT BE SHOD WITH SANDALS; AND NOT PUT ON TWO COATS. Note: The people of Nazareth rejected the Lord, they wanted nothing of Him; but that did not discourage Him nor cause Him to abandon His work for others a significant hint for us in the work for Christ. And while He was making His journey through t... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SAID UNTO THEM, IN WHAT PLACE SOEVER YE ENTER INTO AN HOUSE, THERE ABIDE TILL YE DEPART FROM THAT PLACE.... [ Continue Reading ]
Further instruction:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHOSOEVER SHALL NOT RECEIVE YOU, NOR HEAR YOU, WHEN YE DEPART THENCE, SHAKE OFF THE DUST UNDER YOUR FEET FOR A TESTIMONY AGAINST THEM. VERILY I SAY UNTO YOU, IT SHALL BE MORE TOLERABLE FOR SODOM AND GOMORRAH IN THE DAY OF JUDGMENT THAN FOR THAT CITY.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY WENT OUT, AND PREACHED THAT MEN SHOULD REPENT.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY CAST OUT MANY DEVILS, AND ANOINTED WITH OIL MANY THAT WERE SICK, AND HEALED THEM. wherever it may be that they entered into a house, whether in city or town or village, there, in that house, they should stay. They should neither lose time for their work by searching for a pleasant boarding-... [ Continue Reading ]
AND KING HEROD HEARD OF HIM; (FOR HIS NAME WAS SPREAD ABROAD:) AND HE SAID, THAT JOHN THE BAPTIST WAS RISEN FROM THE DEAD, AND THEREFORE MIGHTY WORKS DO SHOW FORTH THEMSELVES IN HIM.... [ Continue Reading ]
DEATH OF JOHN THE BAPTIST. Conjectures concerning the identity of Christ:... [ Continue Reading ]
OTHERS SAID, THAT IT IS ELIAS. AND OTHERS SAID, THAT IT IS A PROPHET, OR AS ONE OF THE PROPHETS.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT WHEN HEROD HEARD THEREOF, HE SAID, IT IS JOHN, WHOM I BEHEADED; HE IS RISEN FROM THE DEAD. Where there is no fear of God, superstition reigns supreme. Herod's conscience was bothering him for a crime which had been committed some time before. Hearing of the mighty deeds of Jesus, as His name and... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR HEROD HIMSELF HAD SENT FORTH AND LAID HOLD UPON JOHN, AND BOUND HIM IN PRISON FOR HERODIAS' SAKE, HIS BROTHER PHILIP'S WIFE.... [ Continue Reading ]
Herod reproved by John:... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR JOHN HAD SAID UNTO HEROD, IT IS NOT LAWFUL FOR THEE TO HAVE THY BROTHER'S WIFE.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEREFORE HERODIAS HAD A QUARREL AGAINST HIM, AND WOULD HAVE KILLED HIM; BUT SHE COULD NOT,... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR HEROD FEARED JOHN, KNOWING THAT HE WAS A JUST MAN AND AN HOLY, AND OBSERVED HIM; AND WHEN HE HEARD HIM, HE DID MANY THINGS, AND HEARD HIM GLADLY. Some personal facts concerning Herod and his family are here told. Throughout the passage the name king is applied to him by courtesy only; for Herod... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN A CONVENIENT DAY WAS COME, THAT HEROD ON HIS BIRTHDAY MADE A SUPPER TO HIS LORDS, HIGH CAPTAINS, AND CHIEF ESTATES OF GALILEE;... [ Continue Reading ]
The birthday festival:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN THE DAUGHTER OF THE SAID HERODIAS CAME IN AND DANCED, AND PLEASED HEROD AND THEM THAT SAT WITH HIM, THE KING SAID UNTO THE DAMSEL, ASK OF ME WHATSOEVER THOU WILT, AND I WILL GIVE IT THEE.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SWARE UNTO HER, WHATSOEVER THOU SHALT ASK OF ME, I WILL GIVE IT THEE, UNTO THE HALF OF MY KINGDOM.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND SHE WENT FORTH AND SAID UNTO HER MOTHER, WHAT SHALL I ASK? AND SHE SAID, THE HEAD OF JOHN THE BAPTIST.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND SHE CAME IN STRAIGHTWAY WITH HASTE UNTO THE KING AND ASKED, SAYING, I WILL THAT THOU GIVE ME BY AND BY IN A CHARGER THE HEAD OF JOHN THE BAPTIST. CONVENIENT THIS BIRTHDAY FESTIVAL WAS, COMING JUST AT A GOOD, AT THE RIGHT TIME TO AGREE WITH THE VENGEFUL PLANS OF HERODIAS, FOR SHE STILL CHERISHED... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE KING WAS EXCEEDING SORRY; YET FOR HIS OATH'S SAKE, AND FOR THEIR SAKES WHICH SAT WITH HIM, HE WOULD NOT REJECT HER.... [ Continue Reading ]
The execution:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IMMEDIATELY THE KING SENT AN EXECUTIONER, AND COMMANDED HIS HEAD TO BE BROUGHT; AND HE WENT AND BEHEADED HIM IN THE PRISON,... [ Continue Reading ]
AND BROUGHT HIS HEAD IN A CHARGER, AND GAVE IT TO THE DAMSEL; AND THE DAMSEL GAVE IT TO HER MOTHER.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN HIS DISCIPLES HEARD OF IT, THEY CAME AND TOOK UP HIS CORPSE, AND LAID IT IN A TOMB. The fact that the wish of Salome could be carried out so rapidly makes it very probable that the banquet was held at Machaerus. When the girl made her gruesome request, there may have been some gasping in th... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE APOSTLES GATHERED THEMSELVES TOGETHER UNTO JESUS, AND TOLD HIM ALL THINGS, BOTH WHAT THEY HAD DONE AND WHAT THEY HAD TAUGHT.... [ Continue Reading ]
The return of the apostles:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SAID UNTO THEM, COME YE YOURSELVES APART INTO A DESERT PLACE AND REST A WHILE; FOR THERE WERE MANY COMING AND GOING, AND THEY HAD NO LEISURE SO MUCH AS TO EAT.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY DEPARTED INTO A DESERT PLACE BY SHIP PRIVATELY. While the apostles made their first independent preaching-trip, the Lord Himself had not been idle. He had continued His journey in the company of other disciples, and He always had an audience wherever He came. But at the time when Herod had... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE PEOPLE SAW THEM DEPARTING, AND MANY KNEW HIM, AND RAN AFOOT THITHER OUT OF ALL CITIES, AND OUTWENT THEM, AND CAME TOGETHER UNTO HIM.... [ Continue Reading ]
FEEDING OF FIVE THOUSAND MEN. The eagerness of the people:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND JESUS, WHEN HE CAME OUT, SAW MUCH PEOPLE, AND WAS MOVED WITH COMPASSION TOWARD THEM, BECAUSE THEY WERE AS SHEEP NOT HAVING A SHEPHERD. AND HE BEGAN TO TEACH THEM MANY THINGS. Jesus actually managed to get away in a boat alone with His disciples; but His embarking was nevertheless witnessed by so... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN THE DAY WAS NOW FAR SPENT, HIS DISCIPLES CAME UNTO HIM AND SAID, THIS IS A DESERT PLACE, AND NOW THE TIME IS FAR PASSED.... [ Continue Reading ]
Testing the disciples:... [ Continue Reading ]
SEND THEM AWAY THAT THEY MAY GO INTO THE COUNTRY ROUND ABOUT AND INTO THE VILLAGES AND BUY THEMSELVES BREAD; FOR THEY HAVE NOTHING TO EAT.... [ Continue Reading ]
HE ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO THEM, GIVE YE THEM TO EAT. AND THEY SAY UNTO HIM, SHALL WE GO AND BUY TWO HUNDRED PENNYWORTH OF BREAD, AND GIVE THEM TO EAT?... [ Continue Reading ]
HE SAITH UNTO THEM, HOW MANY LOAVES HAVE YE? GO AND SEE. AND WHEN THEY KNEW, THEY SAY, FIVE, AND TWO FISHES. In this story, as in many others, the Holy Spirit has permitted the evangelist to record such parts of the conversation as he remembered. The hour had advanced very far, it was late in the da... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE COMMANDED THEM TO MAKE ALL SIT DOWN BY COMPANIES UPON THE GREEN GRASS. v 40. AND THEY SAT DOWN IN RANKS, BY HUNDREDS AND BY FIFTIES.... [ Continue Reading ]
The feeding:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN HE HAD TAKEN THE FIVE LOAVES AND THE TWO FISHES, HE LOOKED UP TO HEAVEN, AND BLESSED, AND BRAKE THE LOAVES, AND GAVE THEM TO HIS DISCIPLES TO SET BEFORE THEM; AND THE TWO FISHES DIVIDED HE AMONG THEM ALL.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND. THEY DID. ALL EAT AND WERE FILLED.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY TOOK UP TWELVE BASKETS FULL OF THE FRAGMENTS, AND OF THE FISHES.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY THAT DID EAT OF THE LOAVES WERE ABOUT FIVE THOUSAND MEN. Nothing could be more expressive than the contrast afforded here between the helpless puttering of the disciples and the cool, majestic bearing of Christ in taking charge of the situation. He had the disciples give orders that all sho... [ Continue Reading ]
AND STRAIGHTWAY HE CONSTRAINED HIS DISCIPLES TO GET INTO A SHIP, AND TO GO TO THE OTHER SIDE BEFORE UNTO BETHSAIDA, WHILE HE SENT AWAY THE PEOPLE.... [ Continue Reading ]
CHRIST WALKING ON THE SEA AND HIS RETURN TO GALILEE. The dismissal of the disciples and the people:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN HE HAD SENT THEM AWAY, HE DEPARTED INTO, A MOUNTAIN TO PRAY. He constrained, He urged, He almost forced His disciples to embark into their boat again. They were loath to leave after this glorious exhibition of divine power, and they may have been truly solicitous for His welfare in the face... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN EVEN WAS COME, THE SHIP WAS IN THE MIDST OF THE SEA, AND HE ALONE ON THE LAND.... [ Continue Reading ]
Jesus walking on the sea:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SAW THEM TOILING IN ROWING; FOR THE WIND WAS CONTRARY UNTO THEM. AND ABOUT THE FOURTH WATCH OF THE NIGHT HE COMETH UNTO THEM, WALKING UPON THE SEA, AND WOULD HAVE PASSED BY THEM.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT WHEN THEY SAW HIM WALKING UPON THE SEA; THEY SUPPOSED IT HAD BEEN A SPIRIT, AND CRIED OUT;... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THEY ALL SAW HIM AND WERE TROUBLED. AND IMMEDIATELY HE TALKED WITH THEM AND SAITH UNTO THEM, BE OF GOOD CHEER; IT IS I; BE NOT AFRAID.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE WENT UP UNTO THEM INTO THE SHIP; AND THE WIND CEASED. AND THEY WERE SORE AMAZED IN THEMSELVES BEYOND MEASURE, AND WONDERED.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THEY CONSIDERED NOT THE MIRACLE OF THE LOAVES; FOR THEIR HEART WAS HARDENED. In the late afternoon the disciples had left the eastern shore, and when night came on, they had not yet crossed the lake, for they were obliged to battle with contrary winds. And He alone was on the land. He knew their... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN THEY HAD PASSED OVER, THEY CAME INTO THE LAND OF GENNESARET, AND DREW TO THE SHORE.... [ Continue Reading ]
New work for the Lord:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN THEY WERE COME OUT OF THE SHIP, STRAIGHTWAY THEY KNEW HIM.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND RAN THROUGH THAT WHOLE REGION ROUND ABOUT, AND BEGAN TO CARRY ABOUT IN BEDS THOSE THAT WERE SICK, WHERE THEY HEARD HE WAS.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHITHERSOEVER HE ENTERED, INTO VILLAGES, OR CITIES, OR COUNTRY, THEY LAID THE SICK IN THE STREETS, AND BESOUGHT HIM THAT THEY MIGHT TOUCH IF IT WERE BUT THE BORDER OF HIS GARMENT; AND AS MANY AS TOUCHED HIM WERE MADE WHOLE. On the western shore of the lake there was a region, Gennesaret, "the ga... [ Continue Reading ]