Mark 6:1-56
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).... [ Continue Reading ]
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).... [ Continue Reading ]
IS NOT THIS THE CARPENTER?] Mt 'Is not this the carpenter's son?' Baur, Bleek, Renan, and Hilgenfeld regard St. Mark's version of this expression as a proof that he was acquainted with the Virgin Birth. 'Mark tolerates not the paternity of Joseph even in the mouth of Nazarenes' (Hilgenfeld). Most sc... [ Continue Reading ]
HE COULD THERE DO] This expression, as presenting an apparent difficulty to faith, is more original than St. Matthew's 'He did not there many mighty works.' Of course the inability was moral. Jesus required faith in those who were to be healed, or in persons connected with them, and only in a very f... [ Continue Reading ]
MISSION OF THE TWELVE (Matthew 10:1; Luke 9:1). See on Mt.... [ Continue Reading ]
ANOINTED] cp. James 5:14.... [ Continue Reading ]
HEROD AND JESUS. EXECUTION OF THE BAPTIST (Matthew 14:1). See on Mt: cp. Luke 9:7.... [ Continue Reading ]
OBSERVED HIM] RV 'kept him safe.' HE DID MANY THINGS] RV 'he was much perplexed.' Herod's conscience was uneasy.... [ Continue Reading ]
HIGH CAPTAINS] RM 'or, military tribunes, Gr. _chiliarchs._' CHIEF _estates_] RV 'the chief men.'... [ Continue Reading ]
THE DAUGHTER OF.. HERODIAS] Hort, relying upon only five MSS, alters this into 'his daughter Herodias,' a reading which is clearly the blunder of some scribe, since it violates, as Weiss says, 'all history, all grammar, and the context.'... [ Continue Reading ]
AN EXECUTIONER] AVmg. 'one of his guard.' The word is Latin, corresponding either to _speculator,_ 'a watcher,' a soldier of the bodyguard, or _spiculator_, 'one armed with a javelin,' and so an executioner. The word often occurs in rabbinical Hebrew in the sense of an executioner.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 much as to eat'; 'as sheep not having a shepherd'; 'the green grass'; 'like garden beds.' These are... [ Continue Reading ]
RANKS] i.e. groups, lit. 'garden-beds.'... [ Continue Reading ]
WALKING ON THE SEA (Matthew 14:22; John 6:15). See on Mt and Jn.... [ Continue Reading ]
MIRACLES IN THE LAND OF GENNESARET (Matthew 14:34). See on Mt.... [ Continue Reading ]