Marco 1:31-41

31 Ed egli, accostatosi, la prese per la mano, e la sollevò; e subito la febbre la lasciò, ed ella ministrava loro.

32 Poi, fattosi sera, quando il sole andava sotto, gli menarono tutti coloro che stavan male, e gl’indemoniati.

33 E tutta la città era raunata all’uscio.

34 Ed egli ne guarì molti che stavan male di diverse malattie, e cacciò molti demoni; e non permetteva a’ demoni di parlare, perciocchè sapevano chi egli era.

35 Poi, la mattina, essendo ancor molto buio, Gesù si levò, e se ne andò in luogo deserto, e quivi orava.

36 E Simone, e gli altri ch’eran con lui gli andarono dietro.

37 E, trovatolo, gli dissero: Tutti ti cercano.

38 Ed egli disse loro: Andiamo alle castella vicine, acciocchè io predichi ancora là; poichè è per questo che io sono uscito.

39 Ed egli andava predicando nelle lor sinagoghe, per tutta la Galilea, e cacciando i demoni.

40 ED un lebbroso venne a lui, pregandolo, ed inginocchiandosi davanti a lui, e dicendogli: Se tu vuoi, tu puoi mondarmi.

41 E Gesù, mosso a pietà, distese la mano, e lo toccò, e gli disse: Sì, io lo voglio, sii mondato.

Marco 1:31-41 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO MARK

This is the title of the book, the subject of which is the Gospel; a joyful account of the ministry, miracles, actions, and sufferings of Christ: the writer of it was not one of the twelve apostles, but an evangelist; the same with John Mark, or John, whose surname was Mark: John was his Hebrew name, and Mark his Gentile name, Ac 12:12,25, and was Barnabas's sister's son, Col 4:10, his mother's name was Mary, Ac 12:12. The Apostle Peter calls him his son, 1Pe 5:13, if he is the same; and he is thought to have wrote his Gospel from him {a}, and by his order, and which was afterwards examined and approved by him {b} it is said to have been wrote originally in Latin, or in the Roman tongue: so say the Arabic and Persic versions at the beginning of it, and the Syriac version says the same at the end: but of this there is no evidence, any more, nor so much, as of Matthew's writing his Gospel in Hebrew. The old Latin copy of this, is a version from the Greek; it is most likely that it was originally written in Greek, as the rest of the New Testament.

{a} Papias apud Euseb. Hist. l. 3. c. 39. Tertull. adv. Marcion. l. 4. c. 5. {b} Hieron. Catalog. Script. Eccles. p. 91. sect. 18.