AND. Note. he Figure of speech _Polyeyedeton_ (App-6), in verses: Mark 4:1. AGAIN. lie had taught there before. Compare Mark 3:7. BY... SIDE. beside. Greek. _para_. App-104. UNTO. Cr. _pros._ App-104. MULTITUDE = crowd. INTO. Greek. _eis_. App-104. A. the. i.e. in the ship on the sea. Greek _e... [ Continue Reading ]
TAUGHT. was teaching. BY. in. Greek. _en._ App-104. Not the same word as in verses: Mark 4:31; Mark 4:38. DOCTRINE. teaching.... [ Continue Reading ]
BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos_ (App-6), for emphasis. Greek. _idou._ App-133. THERE WENT OUT. This parable is repeated in Luke 8:4 under different circumstances from those in Matthew 13:3, which accounts for the variation of wording. The _an tecedents_ in Matthew and Mark are the visit or His... [ Continue Reading ]
IT CAME TO PASS. A Hebraism, AS HE SOWED. in (Greek. _in_ as in Mark 4:2) his sowing.... [ Continue Reading ]
ON. _Greek. epi._ App-104. Not the some word as in Mark 4:8. STONY GROUND. the rocky (place understood). NOT. Greek. _ou_. App-104. Not the same word as in Mark 4:12. EARTH. soil. Greek. _ge._ App-129. Not the same word as in Mark 4:12. IMMEDIATELY. See note on Mark 1:12. BECAUSE, &c.. on accou... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEN... WAS UP. having risen.... [ Continue Reading ]
AMONG. into. Greek. _eis_ App-104. CHOKED. The Greek _sun_ in _sumpnigo_, denotes suffocation by compression. IT YIELDED NO FRUIT. ADivine supplement. Occurs only here. NO. Greek. _ou_. App-105. Not the same word as in Mark 4:5, but the same as in verses: Mark 4:17; Mark 4:40.... [ Continue Reading ]
ON. into. Greek. _eis._ App-104. GOOD. Because prepared. GROUND. Same word as "earth" in Mark 4:5; Mark 4:9 He that hath, fee. See App-142.... [ Continue Reading ]
WAS = came to be. THEY THAT WERE ABOUT HIM... ASKED. Occurs only in Mark. Showing that this parable was spoken after that in Luke 8. See note on Mark 4:3. ABOUT. around. Greek _peri_. App-104. WITH = in conjunction with. Greek. _sun._ App-104. Not the some word as in Mark 4:16; Mark 4:24; Mark 4:... [ Continue Reading ]
IS. hath been. KNOW. got to know. Greek. _ginosko,_ App-132. Compare 1 Corinthians 2:14. All the texts omit "to know" and read "has been given the secret" of the Kingdom, &c. MYSTERY. secret. Not before made known: i.e. its proclamation would be received only by. few. THE KINGDOM OF GOD. See App-... [ Continue Reading ]
THAT, &C. Quoted from Isaiah 6:9; Isaiah 6:10. See App-107. SEEING... SEE. Figure of speech _Polyptoton,_ (App-6). Greek. _blepo._ App-133. NOT. Greek. _me_. App-105. PERCEIVE. see. App-133. HEARING... HEAR. Figure of speech _Polyptoton._ App-6. BE CONVERTED = return [to the Lord]. SINS. App-1... [ Continue Reading ]
KNOW YE NOT... ?. Have ye no intuitive knowledge of. Greek. _oida._ App-132. A Divine supplement, here. PARABLES = the parables.... [ Continue Reading ]
WORD, Greek. _logos_. See note on Mark 9:32.... [ Continue Reading ]
WITH GLADNESS. This effect of thus hearing has the "immediate" ending described in Mark 4:17. WITH. in association with. Greek. _meta._ App-104.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND... FOR. TIME. but are temporary. AFFLICTION. tribulation. FOR... SAKE. on account of. Greek. _dia._ App-104.Mark 4:2. ARE OFFENDED. stumble. The stumbling is as immediate as the "gladness "of Mark 4:16.... [ Continue Reading ]
CARES. anxieties. WORLD. age. Greek. _aion_. App-129. OF. concerning. Greek. _peri._ App-104.... [ Continue Reading ]
IS... BROUGHT = Doth.. come. Figure of speech _l'rosopopoeia_ App-6. CANDLE. the lamp. Greek. _luchnos_. App-130. TO BE PUT = in order to be placed. UNDER. Greek. _hupo._ App-104. BUSHEL = the measure. BED. Greek _kline._ Not the same word as in Mark 2:4. AND NOT TO BE. [Is it] not [brought] i... [ Continue Reading ]
NOTHING. not (Greek. _ou._ App-105.) anything. MANIFESTED. Greek _phaneroo._ App-106. WAS ANY THING KEPT SECRET. does. secret thing take place. IT SHOULD COME ABROAD. it may come into (Greek. _eis._ App-104.) [the] light (App-130 8),... [ Continue Reading ]
IF, &c. Assuming the hypothesis as. fact. App-118.... [ Continue Reading ]
TAKE HEED. App-133. WHAT. On the former occasion the Lord said "how" (Luke 8:18). WITH. Greek. _en_. App-104. TO YOU. SHALL MORE BE GIVEN. to you, and that with interest.... [ Continue Reading ]
FROM. Greek. _apo_. App-104.... [ Continue Reading ]
SO. Thus. IF.. contingent hypothesis. App-118. A MAN. Greek. _anthropos._ App-123. SHOULD CAST. should have cast. SEED. the seed. INTO. upon. Greek. _epi_. App-104.... [ Continue Reading ]
SHOULD SLEEP, AND RISE. These Present Tenses, following the Past in Mark 4:26, indicate the continued rising and sleeping after the seed was sown. SPRING. sprout. GROW UP. lengthen. KNOWETH. has no intuitive knowledge. Greek. _oida_ App-132.... [ Continue Reading ]
OF HERSELF. Greek. _automate =_ automatically. The word occurs only here and Acts 12:10. Galen (quoted by Wetstein) says it means "Not as being without. cause, but without. cause proceeding from us". "God clothes the grass". The explanation is in 1 Corinthians 3:6; 1 Corinthians 3:7, THE. THE. a. a... [ Continue Reading ]
IS BROUGHT FORTH. delivers itself up. PUTTETH IN. sentient forth. Greek _apostello._ App-174., Compare John 4:38.... [ Continue Reading ]
COMPARISON. parable. SHALL WE. are we to.... [ Continue Reading ]
IN UPON. Greek. _epi._ App-104. THAT BE IN THE EARTH. Divine supplement here.... [ Continue Reading ]
GROWETH UP. Divine supplement here. SHOOTETH OUT. makes. THE AIR. the heaven. Singular. See note on Matthew 6:9; Matthew 6:10. Occurs only in Mark.... [ Continue Reading ]
SPAKE. was He speaking. AS THEY WERE ABLE TO HEAR. Occurs only in Mark.... [ Continue Reading ]
EXPOUNDED. kept expounding. Compare Luke 24:27 and 2 Peter 1:20.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE SAME DAY. This miracle is not the same as that recorded in Matthew 8:23, but is the same as that in Luke 8:22. INTO. Greek. _eis_ App-104.... [ Continue Reading ]
ALSO. SHIPS. boats also. Occurs only in Mark. OTHER. Greek. Plural of _allos._ App-124.... [ Continue Reading ]
STORM. squall. The earlier storm in Matthew was caused by an earthquake (Greek. _seismos)_. That storm was _before_ the calling of the Twelve (Matthew 8:24 and Mark 10:1). This storm was _subsequent_ (Compare Mark 3:13). BEAT. were beating Thecefoer an open boat. FULLFILLING. In the earlier storm... [ Continue Reading ]
IN. on. Greek. _epi_. App-104. All the texts prefer Greek. _en_. in (App-104.) ASLEEP. sleeping (soundly). App-171. A PILLOW. the [wooden] seat [with its leathern covering [or cushion]. MASTER. Teacher. App-98. Mark 4:1. PERISH. are perishing.... [ Continue Reading ]
REBUKED the wind first, and then the disciples, because the danger was greater. In the earlier storm, He rebuked the disciples first, and the storm after, for the opposite reason. WAS. became,... [ Continue Reading ]
SO. thus.... [ Continue Reading ]
FEARED EXCEEDINGLY. feared with. great fear. Figure of speech _Polyptoton._ App-6. TO. Greek _pros._ App-104. WHAT MANNER OF MAU... ?. Who then is this One?... [ Continue Reading ]