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Ask a QuestionAnd straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up--Not only was her issue of blood stanched (Lu 8:44), but the cause of it was thoroughly removed, insomuch that by her bodily sensations she...
And she said, The head of John the Baptist--Abandoned women are more shameless and heartless than men. The Baptist's fidelity marred the pleasures of Herodias, and this was too good an opportunity...
And he commanded them to make all sit down by companies upon the green grass--or "green hay"; the rank grass of those bushy wastes. For, as John (Joh 6:10) notes, "there was much grass in the...
See on Mt 15:1-20. The Syrophoenician Woman and Her Daughter (Mr 7:24-30). The first words of this narrative show that the incident followed, in point of time, immediately on what precedes it.
When I brake the five loaves among five thousand--"the five thousand." how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? &c.
If any man desire to be first, the same shall be last of all, and servant of all--that is, "let him be" such: he must be prepared to take the last and lowest place. See on Mr 10:42-45.
And whosoever of you will be the chiefest--or "first." shall be--that is, "let him be," or "shall be he who is prepared to be." servant of all--one in the lowest condition of service.
And they brought it. And he saith unto them, Whose is this image--stamped upon the coin. and superscription?--the words encircling it on the obverse side. And they said unto him, Caesar's.
Then come unto him the Sadducees, which say there is no resurrection--"neither angel nor spirit" (Ac 23:7). They were the materialists of the day. See on Ac 23:6. and they asked him, saying--as...
And the chief seats in the synagogues, and the uppermost rooms--or positions. at feasts--On this love of distinction, see on Lu 14:7; Mt 6:5.
12:1-11). The events of this section appeared to have occurred on the fourth day (Wednesday) of the Redeemer's Last Week. Conspiracy of the Jewish Authorities to Put Jesus to Death (Mr 14:1,2).
And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature--See on Joh 20:19-23 and Lu 24:36-49.
16-20; Lu 24:1-51; Joh 20:1, 2, 11-29). The Resurrection Announced to the Women (Mr 16:1-8).
hand of the Lord was with him--by special tokens marking him out as one destined to some great work (1Ki 18:46; 2Ki 3:15; Ac 11:21).
unto uncleanness--Greek, "for the purpose of." unto--rather as Greek, "in"; marking that "holiness" is the element in which our calling has place; in a sphere of holiness. Saint is another name for...
righteous...wicked--not contradictory of Eze 18:4, 9 and Ge 18:23. Ezekiel here views the mere outward aspect of the indiscriminate universality of the national calamity. But really the same...
But the same servant went out, and found one of his fellow servants--Mark the difference here. The first case is that of master and servant; in this case, both are on a footing of equality. (See...
if ye be without--excluded from participation in chastisement, and wishing to be so. all--all sons: all the worthies enumerated in the eleventh chapter: all the witnesses (Heb 12:1). are--Greek,...
Phinehas...hath turned my wrath away--This assurance was a signal mark of honor that the stain of blood, instead of defiling, confirmed him in office and that his posterity should continue as long...
this is the...land of Canaan--The details given in this chapter mark the general boundary of the inheritance of Israel west of the Jordan. The Israelites never actually possessed all the territory...
The anarchy resulting under such imbecile rulers (Isa 3:4); unjust exactions mutually; the forms of respect violated (Le 19:32). base--low-born. Compare the marks of "the last days" (2Ti 3:2).
set his throne above--a mark of respect. the kings--The Hebrew text reads (the other) "kings." "The kings" is a Masoretic correction.
And all the city was gathered together at the door--of Peter's house; that is, the sick and those who brought them, and the wondering spectators. This bespeaks the presence of an eye-witness, and...
I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy bed, and go thy way into thine house--This taking up the portable couch, and walking home with it, was designed to prove the completeness of the cure.
And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them, &c.--See on Mt 13:10-17.
For she said--"within herself" (Mt 9:21). If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole--that is, if I may but come in contact with this glorious Healer at all. Remarkable faith this!
And he left them--no doubt with tokens of displeasure. and entering into the ship again, departed to the other side. The Leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees (Mr 8:14-21).
Neither go into the town, nor tell it to any in the town--Besides the usual reasons against going about "blazing the matter," retirement in this case would be salutary to himself. For the...
And he said unto them, What would ye that I should do for you?--Though well aware what was in their mind and their mother's, our Lord will have the unseemly petition uttered before all.
But woe to them--or, "alas for them." that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days--in consequence of the aggravated suffering which those conditions would involve.