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prophesy...prophesy--The repetition marks emphatic earnestness.
And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes.
And they went and told it unto the residue: neither believed they them, &c.
Why could not we cast him out?
And these are they which are sown among thorns; such as hear the word,
In those days the multitude being very great, &c.
And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God.
See on Lu 19:29-40.
In the resurrection therefore when they shall rise, &c.
And let him that is in the field not turn back again for to take up his garment.
But Jesus took him by the hand, and lifted him up; and he arose.
And Jesus answering them began to say, Take heed lest any man deceive you:
Take ye heed, watch and pray; for ye know not when the time is.
For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear--beautiful allusion to the succession of similar stages, though not definitely mark...
And these signs shall follow them that believe...They shall take up serpents--These two verses also are peculiar to Mark. The Ascension and Triumphant Proclamation of the Gospel Thereafter...
Thy daughter is dead; why troublest thou the Master any further?--the Teacher.
let no man trouble me--by opposing my apostolic authority, seeing that it is stamped by a sure seal, namely, "I (in contrast to the Judaizing teachers who gloried in the flesh) bear (as a high mark...
Take--Greek, "take up" on thy journey (Ac 20:13, 14). John Mark was probably in, or near, Colosse, as in the Epistle to the Colossians (Col 4:10), written two years before this, he is mentioned as...
waymarks--pillars to mark the road for the returning exiles. Caravans set up pillars, or pointed heaps of stones, to mark the way through the desert against their return. So Israel is told by God...
to receive a mark--literally, "that they should give them a mark"; such a brand as masters stamp on their slaves, and monarchs on their subjects. Soldiers voluntarily punctured their arms with mark...
And Jesus went with him; and much people followed him, and thronged him--The word in Luke (Lu 8:42) is stronger--"choked," "stifled Him."
Others said, That it is Elias. And others, That it is a prophet, or as one of the prophets--(See on Mt 16:14).
have ye your heart yet hardened?--How strong an expression to use of true-hearted disciples! See on Mr 6:52.
Lest, coming suddenly, he find you sleeping--See on Lu 12:35-40; Lu12:42-46.
Barnabas determined to take with them John...Mark--his nephew (Col 4:10).
Unto Shem--The historian introduces him with marked distinction as "the father of Eber," the ancestor of the Hebrews.
The time of this miracle seems too definitely fixed here to admit of our placing it where it stands in Mark and Luke, in whose Gospels no such precise note of time is given.
This incident, as remarked on Mt 9:1, appears to follow next in order of time after the cure of the leper (Mr 1:40-45).
And he suffered no man to follow him, save Peter, and James, and John the brother of James--(See on Mr 1:29).