(4) And when his (n) friends heard [of it], they went out to lay hold on him: for they said, He is beside himself.
(4) None are worse enemies of the gospel than they that should be enemies of it the least.
(n) Literally, "they that were of him", that is, his relatives: for they that were mad were brought to their relatives.
MARK 3:21 avkou,santej oi` parV auvtou/ {A} The original reading oi` parV auvtou/ (“his friends” or “his relatives”) apparently proved to be so embarrassing that D W _al_ altered it to read, “When _t...
Verse 21. _HIS FRIENDS_] Or, _relations_. On this verse several MSS. differ considerably. I have followed the reading of the Syriac, because I think it the best: οιπαραυτου signify merely _his relativ...
WHEN HIS FRIENDS - Greek, “they who were of him.” Not the apostles, but his relatives, his friends, who were in the place of his nativity. HEARD OF IT - Heard of his conduct: his preaching; his appoi...
CHAPTER 3 _ 1. In the synagogue. The man with the withered hand healed. (Mark 3:1. Matthew 12:9; Luke 6:6 .)_ 2. The Withdrawal of the Servant. Many healed. ...
THE ANSWER OF JESUS TO THE VERDICT OF THE JERUSALEM SCRIBES AND THE INTERVENTION OF HIS FAMILY. The introduction of this section would naturally link with Mark 3:6. Jesus returns home (presumably, to...
THE CLASH OF IDEAS (Mark 3:1-6)...
Jesus went into a house; and once again so dense a crowd collected that they could not even eat bread. When his own people heard What was going on, they went out to restrain him, for they said, "He ha...
FRIENDS. kinsfolk. "His brethren, and His mother" (see Mark 3:31). WENT OUT. set out. THEY SAID. they were saying (Imperf. Tense): i.e. maintained (as we say). BESIDE HIMSELF. out of His senses....
_when his friends_ not the Apostles, but His relatives, including "His brethren and His mother," who are noticed here as going forth, and a few verses later on as having arrived at the house where our...
ΟἹ ΠΑΡʼ ΑΥ̓ΤΟΥ͂. An expression as vague as our “His people.” It might include relations, acquaintances, domestics, and all who had a special interest in Him. “_Her household_ are clothed in scarlet” ...
VER 19. ------- AND THEY WENT INTO AN HOUSE. 20. AND THE MULTITUDE COMETH TOGETHER AGAIN, SO THAT THEY COULD NOT SO MUCH AS EAT BREAD. 21. AND WHEN HIS FRIENDS HEARD OF IT, THEY WENT OUT TO LAY HOLD O...
_JESUS AND THE RULER OF DEMONS MARK 3:20-30:_ When Jesus went home the crowd gathered again. There was not even an opportunity for Jesus to eat. Sadly when Jesus' own family heard what He was doing th...
ΆΚΟΎΣΑΝΤΕΣ _aor. act. part. (temp.) от_ ΆΚΟΎΩ (G191) слышать. _Aor._ указывает на предшествующее действие: "после того как они услышали" ΟΊ ΠΑΡ' ΑΎΤΟΎ (G3844; G846) те, кто с Ним; Его семья (Cranfiel...
FOR THEY SAID, HE IS BESIDE HIMSELF.— _For they said, He fainted away._ So the version of 1729. Dr. Macknight observes, that most translators render this verse as we do; but the meaning which they giv...
B. OPPOSITION 3:20-27 (1) From Friends 3:20-21 _TEXT 3:20-21_ And he cometh into a house. And the multitude cometh together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread. And when his friends...
And the multitude cometh together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread. For the exposition, see the notes at Matthew 12:22, and at Luke 11:21....
18 Simon was called "the Cananite" or "the Zealot" (which means the same) in order to distinguish him from Simon Peter. The term "Cananite" is easily confounded with "Canaanite", an inhabitant of Cana...
CHOICE OF THE TWELVE 1-6. The withered hand (Matthew 12:9; Luke 6:6). See on Mt....
HIS FRIENDS] From Mark 3:31 they appear to have been His mother and brethren. 'There is both a logical and chronological relation between this attitude of our Lord's family and this new phase of the o...
CHRIST IN THE BIBLE: MARK’S GOSPEL _KEITH SIMONS_ This commentary HAS BEEN through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 3 THE DAY FOR REST VERSES 1-5 Jesus obeyed God, his father, completely. Jesus did...
AND WHEN HIS FRIENDS ... — Literally, _those from Him_ — _i.e.,_ from His home. As the “mother and the brethren” are mentioned later on in the chapter as coming to check His teaching, we must see in t...
CHAPTER 3:20-27 (MARK 3:20) CHRIST AND BEELZEBUB "And the multitude cometh together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread. And when his friends heard it, they went out to lay hold on Him...
And the multitude cometh together again, etc. συνέρχεται : the crowd, partially dispersed, reassembles (implying lapse of an appreciable interval). Jesus had hoped they would go away to their homes in...
BROTHER TO ALL WHO WILL Mark 3:20-35; Mark 4:1-9 The Pharisees circulated this infamous charge-not because they believed it, but to satisfy the questions that were being asked on all sides. What they...
This is one of the few occasions on which it is said that Christ was angry. Particularly note the reason for His anger: "When He had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved at the hardeni...
And when his friends had heard of it; [1] literally, his own. We cannot here understand his apostles, for they were in the house with him; but either some of his kindred and friends, or some that were...
THE UNPARDONABLE SIN (BLASPHEMY AGAINST THE HOLY GHOST) Mark 3:20-30; Matthew 12:22-37; & Luke 11:14-23. Mark: “And they come into the house; and again a multitude comes together, so that they are not
(20) And the multitude cometh together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread. (21) And when his friends heard _of it,_ they went out to lay hold on him: for they said, He is beside himsel...
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...
Such was the question raised in the synagogue (chapter 3) on the occasion of the man with the withered hand. The Lord sets it publicly before their conscience; but neither heart nor conscience answere...
WHEN HIS FRIENDS HEARD OF IT,.... Not his spiritual friends, his disciples and followers, that believed in him; but his kinsmen, as the Syriac and Ethiopic versions render the words, who were so accor...
And when his friends heard _of it_, they went out to lay hold on him: for they said, He is beside himself. Ver. 21. _They went out to lay hold on him_] Some read, to lay hold on the multitude, as mad...
_And they went into a house_ It appears, from the manner in which Mark here connects this with the names of the apostles, that it happened very quickly after their being chosen. The other evangelists,...
HIS FRIENDS; his relations. LAY HOLD ON HIM; constrain him to retire from the multitude and take rest. BESIDE HIMSELF; deranged, because, in their view, he in his labors exceeded all reasonable bound...
The friends of Jesus think Him out of His senses:...
AND WHEN HIS FRIENDS HEARD OF IT, THEY WENT OUT TO LAY HOLD ON HIM; FOR THEY SAID, HE IS BESIDE HIMSELF. No sooner had Jesus returned to the city and to the house, no sooner had He come home, than a c...
We have seen that the sabbath was made for the purpose of ministering to the needs of men. Now the Lord in the synagogue encountered a man who was in manifestly serious need. But his need meant nothin...
FRIENDS: Or, kinsmen...
13-21 Christ calls whom he will; for his grace is his own. He had called the apostles to separate themselves from the crowd, and they came unto him. He now gave them power to heal sicknesses, and to...
SEE POOLE ON "MARK 3:21...
Mark 3:21 But G2532 His G846 people G3844 heard G191 (G5660) out G1831 (G5627) hold G2902 ...
‘And when His family and long time friends heard it they went out to lay hold on Him, for they said, “He is beside Himself”.' This is omitted by Matthew and Luke. They probably did not feel it suitab...
OPPOSITION FROM FAMILY AND FRIENDS FROM THE PAST (3:19-21). This rather enigmatic passage prepares the way for and explains the ‘rejection' by Jesus of His mother and brothers in Mark 3:31. Knowing Hi...
THE SECTION CONCLUDES WITH A SUMMARY OF THE CONTINUING MINISTRY (3:7-35). The first major section of Mark's Gospel (from Mark 1:1 to Mark 3:35) now concludes with: · A description of the continuing...
AMAZING SUCCESS BRINGS FERVENT OPPOSITION FROM HIS FAMILY AND FRIENDS (3:7-21). Jesus' success expands as He continues to build up His forces for the proclamation of the truth and against the powers...
Mark 3:21. HIS FRIENDS, lit. ‘those by him.' The exact reference is doubtful. The nearer relatives, spoken of in Mark 3:31, may not be included, since they waited outside; but probably the whole circl...
CHRONOLOGY. At this point we find the largest gap in Mark's narrative. Shortly after the choice of the Twelve, the Sermon on the Mount was delivered. See notes on Matthew. On and after the return to C...
HIS FRIENDS (ο παρ' αυτου). The phrase means literally "those from the side of him (Jesus)." It could mean another circle of disciples who had just arrived and who knew of the crowds and strain of t...
CONTENTS: Jesus heals a withered hand on the Sabbath. Multitudes healed. The twelve chosen. The unpardonable sin. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Holy Spirit, Satan, disciples, man with the withered hand, Mary, J...
Mark 3:13. _He calleth to him whom he would._ He knew them as he knew Nathaniel; he knew their piety, he knew their worth. They followed him at first as hearers, having no thoughts of the glory that w...
WHEN HIS FAMILY HEARD ABOUT THIS. Since the brothers of Jesus did not believe in him at this time (John 7:5), they may have thought he had gone insane with an unhealthy excitement, when they hear of t...
_He Is beside Himself._ THE SINNER MAD, NOT THE SAINT I find St. Paul in the same chapter confesses and denies madness in himself. Whilst he was mad indeed, then none did suspect or accuse him to be...
_And He ordained twelve, that they should be with Him._ THIS WAS THE THIRD STAGE IN THE PREPARATION OF THE DISCIPLES FOR THE APOSTOLATE A certain number had been admitted at the beginning to terms of...
MARK—NOTE ON MARK 3:21 The members of Jesus’ earthly FAMILY believe HE IS OUT OF HIS MIND (see John 7:5) because of all that has happened. (Some of Jesus’
RELIGIOUS LEADERS ACCUSE JESUS OF BEING UNDER SATAN'S POWER MATTHEW 12:24-37; MARK 3:20-30; LUKE 11:15-23; MATTHEW 12:24 But w
CHAPTER 3 1 _Christ healeth the withered hand_, 10 _and many other infirmities_ : 11 _rebuketh the unclean spirits_ : 13 _chooseth his twelve apostles_ : 22 _convinceth the blasphemy of casting out de...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ Mark 3:21. His friends.—His kinsfolk or near relatives. BESIDE HIMSELF.—In an ecstatic state. They thought He was carried away by His zeal and devotion beyond all self...
EXPOSITION This chapter begins with the record of another case of healing on the sabbath day; and it closes with the notice of a combination of the Pharisees with the Herodians to bring about the des...
And he entered again into the synagogue(Mark 3:1); This was on the Sabbath day. and there was a man there which had a withered hand. And they watched him, whether he would heal him on the Sabbath day...
2 Corinthians 5:13; 2 Kings 9:11; Acts 26:24; Hosea 9:7; Jeremiah 29:
His friends [ο ι π α ρ α υ τ ο υ]. Lit., they who were from beside him : i e., by origin or birth. His mother and brethren. Compare verses 31, 32. Wyc., kinsmen. Tynd., they that belonged unto him. No...
His relations — His mother and his brethren, Mark 3:31. But it was some time before they could come near him....