Marco 1:26-36

26 E lo spirito immondo, straziatolo e gridando forte, uscì da lui.

27 E tutti sbigottirono talché si domandavano fra loro: Che cos’è mai questo? E’ una dottrina nuova! Egli comanda con autorità perfino agli spiriti immondi, ed essi gli ubbidiscono!

28 E la sua fama si divulgò subito per ogni dove, in tutta al circostante contrada della Galilea.

29 Ed appena usciti dalla sinagoga, vennero con Giacomo e Giovanni in casa di Simone e d’Andrea.

30 Or la suocera di Simone era a letto con la febbre; ed essi subito gliene parlarono;

31 ed egli, accostatosi, la prese per la mano e la fece levare; e la febbre la lasciò ed ella si mise a servirli.

32 Poi, fattosi sera, quando il sole fu tramontato, gli menarono tutti i malati e gl’indemoniati.

33 E tutta la città era raunata all’uscio.

34 Ed egli ne guarì molti che soffrivan di diverse malattie, e cacciò molti demoni; e non permetteva ai demoni di parlare; poiché sapevano chi egli era.

35 Poi, la mattina, essendo ancora molto buio, Gesù, levatosi, uscì e se ne andò in un luogo deserto; e quivi pregava.

36 Simone e quelli ch’eran con lui gli tennero dietro;

Marco 1:26-36 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.