Mark 3:1
He entered again into the synagogue — At Capernaum on the same day. Matthew 12:9; Luke 6:6.... [ Continue Reading ]
He entered again into the synagogue — At Capernaum on the same day. Matthew 12:9; Luke 6:6.... [ Continue Reading ]
And they — The scribes and Pharisees, watched him, that they might accuse him — Pride, anger, and shame, after being so often put to silence, began now to ripen into malice.... [ Continue Reading ]
Is it lawful to save life or to kill? — Which he knew they were seeking occasion to do. But they held their peace — Being confounded, though not convinced.... [ Continue Reading ]
Looking round upon them with anger, being grieved — Angry at the sin, grieved at the sinner; the true standard of Christian anger. But who can separate anger at sin from anger at the sinner? None but a true believer in Christ.... [ Continue Reading ]
The Pharisees going out — Probably leaving the scribes to watch him still: took counsel with the Herodians — as bitter as they usually were against each other.... [ Continue Reading ]
From Idumea — The natives of which had now professed the Jewish religion above a hundred and fifty years. They about Tyre and Sidon — The Israelites who lived in those coasts.... [ Continue Reading ]
Plagues or scourges (so the Greek word properly means) seem to be those very painful or afflictive disorders which were frequently sent, or at least permitted of God, as a scourge or punishment of sin.... [ Continue Reading ]
He charged them not to make him known — It was not the time: nor were they fit preachers.... [ Continue Reading ]
He calleth whom he would — With regard to the eternal states of men, God always acts as just and merciful. But with regard to numberless other things, he seems to us to act as a mere sovereign. Luke 6:12... [ Continue Reading ]
Matthew 10:2; Luke 6:13; Acts 1:13.... [ Continue Reading ]
He surnamed them sons of thunder — Both with respect to the warmth and impetuosity of their spirit, their fervent manner of preaching, and the power of their word.... [ Continue Reading ]
To eat bread — That is, to take any subsistence.... [ Continue Reading ]
His relations — His mother and his brethren, Mark 3:31. But it was some time before they could come near him.... [ Continue Reading ]
The scribes and Pharisees, Matthew 12:22; who had come down from Jerusalem — Purposely on the devil's errand. And not without success. For the common people now began to drink in the poison, from these learned, good, honourable men! He hath Beelzebub — at command, is in league with him: And by the p... [ Continue Reading ]
Matthew 12:31; Luke 12:10.... [ Continue Reading ]
Because they said, He hath an unclean spirit — Is it not astonishing, that men who have ever read these words, should doubt, what is the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost? Can any words declare more plainly, that it is "the ascribing those miracles to the power of the devil which Christ wrought by th... [ Continue Reading ]
Then come his brethren and his mother — Having at length made their way through the crowd, so as to come to the door. His brethren are here named first, as being first and most earnest in the design of taking him: for neither did these of his brethren believe on him. They sent to him, calling him —... [ Continue Reading ]
Looking round on them who sat about him — With the utmost sweetness; He said, Behold my mother and my brethren — In this preference of his true disciples even to the Virgin Mary, considered merely as his mother after the flesh, he not only shows his high and tender affection for them, but seems desi... [ Continue Reading ]