Mark 1:21

21 And they went into Capernaum and immediately on the Sabbath he began to teach in the synagogue.^[a]

Mark 1:21 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 1:21

And they went into Capernaum
Jesus and his four disciples he had just called, Simon and Andrew, James and John; though the Arabic and Persic versions read, "he went"; that is, Christ; and so Beza says it was read in a certain copy:

and straightway on the sabbath day he entered into the synagogue and
taught;
that is, immediately, as soon as he entered the, city, it being then sabbath day; or, as soon as the sabbath day came, he went to the synagogue at Capernaum, and his disciples with him; where the people used to meet weekly to hear the law read, and to be instructed in divine things; which opportunity Christ laid hold on to preach the Gospel to them, and teach them things concerning the kingdom of God.

Mark 1:21 In-Context

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

20 And immediately he called them, and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired men [and] went away after him.

21 And they went into Capernaum and immediately on the Sabbath he began to teach in the synagogue.

22 And they were amazed at his teaching, because he was teaching them like one who had authority, and not like the scribes.

23 And so then there was a man in their synagogue with an unclean spirit, and he cried out,

Footnotes

• [a]. Some manuscripts have "he went into the synagogue and began to teach"