Mark 1:15-25

15 and saying, ¹“The time is fulfilled, and ²the kingdom of God is at hand; ³repent and believe in the gospel. ”

Jesus Calls the First Disciples

16 ⁴Passing alongside the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew the brother of Simon casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen.

17 And Jesus said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you become ⁵fishers of men. ” ^[a]

18 And immediately they left their nets and followed him.

19 And going on a little farther, he saw James the son of Zebedee and John his brother, who were in their boat mending the nets.

20 And immediately he called them, and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired servants and followed him.

Jesus Heals a Man with an Unclean Spirit

21 ⁶And they went into Capernaum, and immediately ⁷on the Sabbath ⁸he entered the synagogue and was teaching.

22 And ⁹they were astonished at his teaching, ¹⁰for he taught them as one who had authority, and not as the scribes.

23 And immediately there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit. And he cried out,

24 ¹¹“What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? ¹²I know who you are— ¹³the Holy One of God. ”

25 But Jesus ¹⁴rebuked him, saying, “Be silent, and come out of him! ”

Mark 1:15-25 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.

Cross References

• 1. 1:15 Dan. 9:25; Gal. 4:4; Eph. 1:10; [Luke 21:8; John 7:8]
• 2. 1:15 See Matt. 3:2
• 3. 1:15 Acts 19:4; 20:21; Heb. 6:1
• 4. 1:16 For ver. 16-20, see Matt. 4:18-22; [Luke 5:2-11; John 1:40-42]
• 5. 1:17 Matt. 13:47
• 6. 1:21 Matt. 4:13; For ver. 21-28, see Luke 4:31-37
• 7. 1:21 See ch. 6:2
• 8. 1:21 ver. 39; See Matt. 4:23
• 9. 1:22 See Matt. 7:28, 29
• 10. 1:22 See Matt. 7:28, 29
• 11. 1:24 See Matt. 8:29
• 12. 1:24 [ver. 34; Acts 19:15; James 2:19]
• 13. 1:24 John 6:69; Acts 3:14; Rev. 3:7; [Luke 1:35; Heb. 7:26; 1 John 2:20]
• 14. 1:25 See Matt. 12:16

Footnotes

• [a] 1:17 The Greek word 'anthropoi' refers here to both men and women