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Mark 6:39
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.
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.
See this narrative explained in the notes at Matthew 14:13. Mark 6:32 BY SHIP - By a boat or a small vessel. PRIVATELY - Without making their plan known. They intended to go privately. It appears, h...
CHAPTER 6 _ 1. The Servant rejected in Nazareth. (Mark 6:1. Matthew 13:54; Luke 4:16)_ 2. The Servant sends forth the Twelve. (Mark 6:7 .
THE FEEDING OF THE MULTITUDE. Mk. regards the disciples-' need of rest after their missionary labours as the occasion for retirement. The hostility of Herod may also have contributed to the decision t...
WITHOUT HONOR IN HIS OWN COUNTRY (Mark 6:1-6)...
When it was now late the disciples came to Jesus. "The place, they said, "is lonely, and it is now late. Send them away that they may go into the surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselve...
BY COMPANIES. in table-parties: i.e. arranged in three sides of. square, as in. Jewish or Roman dining-room; the guests being seated on the outside and served from the inside. These were arranged in c...
_by companies_ Literally, DRINKING PARTIES. The word alludes to an orderly social grouping, _catervatim_. The words are repeated by a Hebraism in the original, like the "two and two" of Mark 6:7. _upo...
39. ἈΝΑΚΛΙ͂ΝΑΙ ΠΆΝΤΑΣ. _That all should recline_. If the people had stood, they would have crowded round the distributors, and equal distribution would have been impossible. Arranging them in “messes”...
30–44. RETURN OF THE TWELVE. FEEDING OF FIVE THOUSAND Matthew 14:13-21; Luke 9:10-17; John 6:1-14....
Ver 35. 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: 36. Send them away, that they may go into the country round...
_JESUS FED THE FIVE THOUSAND MARK 6:30-44:_ The apostles returned to Jesus and told Him what they had done and what they had taught. He wanted them to have a little time to rest so he took them to a d...
ΈΠΈΤΑΞΕΝ _aor. ind. act., см._ Mark 6:27. ΆΝΑΚΛΪ́ΝΑΙ _aor. act. inf._ или ΆΝΑΚΛΙΘΉΝΑΙ _aor. pass. inf. от_ ΆΝΑΚΛΊΝΩ (G347) _act._ (trans.) заставить прилечь; _pass._ (intrans.) прилечь (ТС, 91). _In...
HE COMMANDED THEM, &C.— When the loaves and the fishes were brought, our Lord commanded his apostles to make the whole multitude sit down by companies, each consisting of two rows, with their faces op...
_SUMMARY 6:1_7:23 The testimony for Jesus furnished by the preceding section, is based chiefly on the opinions which men formed concerning him. The disciples, though slow and hard of heart to realize...
7. THE FEEDING OF THE FIVE THOUSAND 6:30-44. _TEXT 6:30-44_ And the apostles gather themselves together unto Jesus; and they told him all things, whatsoever they had done, and whatsoever they had tau...
And he commanded them to make all sit down by companies upon the green grass. AND HE COMMANDED THEM TO MAKE ALL SIT DOWN BY COMPANIES UPON THE GREEN GRASS, [ epi (G1909) too (G3588) chlooroo (G5515...
18 It was contrary to the plainest precepts of the law to marry the wife of a brother (Lev_18:16; Lev_20:21). This Herod was usually surnamed _ Antipas_, being the son of Herod the great and a Samarit...
VISIT TO NAZARETH. MISSION OF THE TWELVE. EXECUTION OF THE BAPTIST. FEEDING OF THE FIVE THOUSAND. WALKING ON THE SEA 1-6. Visit to Nazareth (Matthew 13:54)....
RETURN OF THE APOSTLES. FEEDING THE FIVE THOUSAND (Matthew 14:13; Luke 9:10; John 6:1). See on Mt and Jn. The graphic touches in Mk should be noticed: 'Come ye yourselves apart,' etc.; 'no leisure so...
CHRIST IN THE BIBLE: MARK’S GOSPEL _KEITH SIMONS_ This commentary HAS BEEN through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 6 JESUS IN NAZARETH VERSES 1-6 Everywhere that Jesus went, the crowds came. They w...
CHAPTER 6:30-46 (MARK 6:30) BREAD IN THE DESERT "And the apostles gather themselves together unto Jesus; and they told Him all things, whatsoever they had done, and whatsoever they had taught. And He...
συμπόσια συμ. Hebraistic for ἀνὰ συμ. (_cf._ δύο δύο, Mark 6:7) = in dining companies. ἐπὶ τῷ χλωρῷ χόρτῳ, on the green grass; a reedy, marshy place near the mouth of the Jordan at the north end of th...
_The feeding_ (Matthew 14:14-21; Luke 9:11-17)....
THE SYMPATHY AND COMPASSION OF JESUS Mark 6:30-56 When the Apostles returned they had much to tell. Some were flushed with success, others radiant with victory over demons, others, perhaps, overstrai...
"He could there do no mighty work." Not that He in Himself was unable, for His hands laid on a few sick folk brought healing, but that the condition of wilful and persistent unbelief limited the power...
And he commanded them to make all sit down by (t) companies upon the green grass. (t) Literally, "by banquets", after the manner of the Hebrews who have no distributive words; see (Mark 6:7). Now he...
CHAPTER 32 FEEDING THE MULTITUDES Matthew 14:13-21; Mark 6:32-44; Luke 9:10-17; & John 6:1-14. Mark: “And they de
THE TWELVE RETURN Mark 6:30-44. “And the apostles come together to Jesus, and proclaim to Him all things, even so many things as they did, and so many things as they taught. He said to them, Come ye a...
(30) And the apostles gathered themselves together unto Jesus, and told him all things, both what they had done, and what they had taught. (31) And he said unto them, Come ye yourselves apart into a d...
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...
_FED OF GOD_ ‘And He commanded them to make all sit down by companies.’ Mark 6:39 The subject of which I wish to speak to you is the need which comes to men of simply being fed by God, of ceasing f...
In that which follows, the history (properly so called) of His service is resumed (chapter 6). Only we see Him already rejected by a blinded people, in spite of the power which He had manifested, and...
AND HE COMMANDED THEM TO MAKE ALL SIT DOWN,.... Christ ordered his disciples, without any more ado, to cause the whole multitude, men, women, and children, to sit, or lie down, as they used to do at t...
And he commanded them to make all sit down by companies upon the green grass. Ver. 39. _See Trapp on "_ Mat 14:17 _"_ _See Trapp on "_ Joh 6:8 _"_ _See Trapp on "_ Joh 6:9 _"_...
_When the day was far spent_, &c. See notes on Matthew 14:15, where the circumstances of the miracle here recorded are explained at large. _And they sat down in ranks_ Or rather, _in squares_, as Camp...
Five thousand fed, near the shore of the sea of Galilee. Matthew 14:15-21....
30-44 Let not ministers do any thing or teach any thing, but what they are willing should be told to their Lord. Christ notices the frights of some, and the toils of others of his disciples, and prov...
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Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XI Then since there are different orders of those who need the food which Jesus supplies and all are not nourished by equal words, on this account I think that Mark...
Mark 6:39 Then G2532 commanded G2004 (G5656) them G846 make G347 all G3956 down G347 (G5658) groups...
THE FEEDING OF THE FIVE THOUSAND (6:35-43). Many attempts have been made to rationalise this account. The suggestion is made that when the crowd saw the disciples (or the little boy) sharing food they...
THE WIDER MINISTRY BEGINS - THE APOSTLES ARE SENT OUT - OPPOSITION CONTINUES (6:6A-56). Having established that Jesus is Lord of the elements, Lord over evil spirits and Lord over life and death, Mark...
THE DISCIPLES RETURN AND TAKE A BREAK - THE FEEDING OF FIVE THOUSAND PEOPLE (6:30-44). When the disciples returned and explained to Jesus all that had happened He sought to take them somewhere where t...
‘And he commanded them that all should sit down group by group on the green grass. And they sat down in ranks, by hundreds and by fifties.' Peter remembered vividly the greenness of the grass, which i...
THE entire independence of Mark's Gospel is fully apparent in this section, which tells of one of the few events recorded by all four Evangelists. In the emendations we have sought to reproduce the vi...
Mark 6:39. UPON THE GREEN GRASS. ‘Green ‘is inserted by Mark alone, in his usual graphic way....
BY COMPANIES (συμποσια συμποσια). Distribution expressed by repetition as in Mark 6:7 (δυο δυο) instead of using ανα or κατα. Literally our word _symposium_ and originally a drinking party, Latin _...
Mark 6:30 The Marvellous Meal. I. The disciples had been away from Jesus, on their first missionary tour, journeying on foot from town to town, preaching what He had taught them, and working miracles...
Mark 6:39 Note: I. The need which comes to men of simply being fed by God, of ceasing from forth-puttingness and self-assertion, and simply being receptive to the influences which come to them from...
CONTENTS: The twelve sent out to preach. Murder of John the Baptist. The 5000 fed. Jesus walks on the sea. Jesus heals many at Gennesaret. CHARACTERS: Jesus, disciples, Herod, Herodias, her daughter,...
Mark 6:3. _Is not this the carpenter?_ The jews were bound to teach their children some trade, as no man could say what the vicissitudes of life might be. Hence Lightfoot cites the following passage f...
_He answered and said unto them, Give ye them to eat._ MIRACLE OF THE LOAVES The miracles of Christ ought to be considered; they are not trifles, and they ought not to be passed over as if they were...
MARK—NOTE ON MARK 6:14 The death of John the Baptist casts an ominous shadow on Jesus’ future. Jesus’ life is in danger, partly because of his authoritative, miraculous deeds. ⇐
Jesus feeds five thousand Matthew 14:13-21; Mark 6:30-44; Luke 9:10-17; John 6:1-15;...
CHAPTER 6 1 _Christ is contemned of his countrymen_. 7 _He giveth the twelve power over unclean spirits_. 14 _Divers opinions of Christ_. 27 _John Baptist is beheaded_, 29 _and buried_. 30 _The apostl...
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Mark 6:33_ (PARALLELS: Matthew 14:13; Luke 9:10; John 6:1.) _The multitude fed_.—When Jesus came forth fr
EXPOSITION MARK 6:1 Our Lord now left the neighbourhood of Capernaum, and came INTO HIS OWN COUNTRY, the district of Nazareth, where he had been, not born indeed, but brought up, and where his kinsfo...
Shall we turn to Mark's gospel, chapter 6. Jesus had been in the city of Capernaum there on the northern part of the Sea of Galilee. And He has just brought back to life the daughter of Jairus, one of...
1 Corinthians 14:33; 1 Corinthians 14:40; 1 Kings 10:5; Esther 1:5;...
By companies [σ υ μ π ο σ ι α σ υ μ π ο σ ι α]. Peculiar to Mark. The Jewish dining - room was arranged like the Roman : three tables forming three sides of a square, and with divans or couches follow...