Is it seemly? (prepon estin;). Periphrastic present indicative rather than prepei. See on Mt 3:15. Paul appeals to the sense of propriety among the C...
By what authority (en poiai exousiai). This question in all three Gospels was a perfectly legitimate one. See on Mt 21:23-27 for discussion. Note pre...
living creatures See commentary on Revelation 4:6. twenty-four elders See commentary on Revelation 4:4. The NU and MT texts omit twenty-four. Him who ...
The Lord (o Kurio). So Matt. and Luke. See on Mt 21:3 for discussion of this word applied to Jesus by himself. He will send him back (apostellei). Pr...
Dunghill (koprian). Later word in the Koin vernacular. Here only in the N.T., though in the LXX. Men cast it out (exw ballousin auto). Impersonal plu...
Began to cast out (hrxato ekballein). Mark is fond of began. See on Mt 21:12 for discussion of this second cleansing of the temple in its bearing on ...
Unto Bethphage and Bethany (ei Bhqpagh kai Bhqania). Both indeclinable forms of the Hebrew or Aramaic names. In Mark 11:1 Bethany is inflected regu...
While we look not (mh skopountwn hmwn). Genitive absolute with participle of skopew from skopo, goal. Temporal (proskaira). Rather temporary, for a s...
Mark 10:11 And he saith unto them The same things as in Mt 5:32, 19:9; (See Gill on Matthew 5:32), (See Gill on Matthew 19:9): whosoever shall put aw...
Dumb (kwpon). See on Mt 9:32. By Beelzebub (en Beezeboul). Blasphemous accusation here in Judea as in Galilee ( Mark 3:22 ; Matthew 12:24 Matthew 1...
A beloved son (uion agaphton). Luke 20:13 has ton uion ton agaphton. Jesus evidently has in mind the language of the Father to him at his baptism (...
Mightier than I (iscurotero mou). Ablative after the comparative adjective. His baptism is water baptism, but the Coming One will baptize in the Holy...
HURAI hu'-ri, hu'-ra-i, hu-ra'-i (churay, linen-weaver): One of David's mighty men mentioned in 1?Chronicles 11:32 as of the brooks of Gaash, i.e. fr...
And they, when they heard it, were glad (oi de akousante ecarhsan). No doubt the rabbis looked on the treachery of Judas as a veritable dispensation ...
I born (etecqh). First aorist passive indicative from tiktw. Was born. Saviour (swthr). This great word is common in Luke and Paul and seldom elsewhe...
Not during the feast (Mh en th eorth). They had first planned to kill him at the feast ( John 11:57 ), but the Triumphal Entry and great Tuesday deba...
Neither murmur ye (mhde gogguzete). Implying that some of them were murmuring. For this late picturesque onomatopoetic verb see on Mt 20:11. The refe...
After supper (meta to deipnhsai). Meta and the articular aorist active infinitive, after the dining (or the supping) as in Luke 22:20 . The new cove...
From the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah (apo aimato Abel ew aimato Zacariou). The blood of Abel is the first shed in the Old Testament ( Gen...
Corban (korban o estin dwron). See on Mt 15:5. Mark preserves the Hebrew word for a gift or offering to God ( Exodus 21:17 ; Leviticus 20:9 ), indec...