Mark 1:32

ὀψίας, etc.: exact indication of time by two phrases, on the arrival of evening when the sun set; evening a vague phrase = late afternoon. It was Sabbath, and the people would wait till sunset when Sabbath closed. Hence the double note of time. So most recent commentators, also Victor Ant. in Cramer's Catenae (ἐπειδὴ ἐνόμιζον μὴ ἐξεῖναί τινι θεραπεύειν σαββάτῳ, τούτου χάριν τοῦ σαββάτου τὸ πέρας ἀνέμενον). Matthew and Luke divide Mark's phrases between them. The first sufficed for Matthew because he says nothing of its being Sabbath. This instance of duality in expression in Mark has done service in connection with Griesbach's hypothesis that Mark is made up from Matthew and Luke. κακῶς ἔχοντας, such as were ailing, peculiar to Mark. τοὺς δαιμονιζομένους : them specially, because of what happened in the synagogue.