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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

Mark 6

Mark 6:1

OLBGrk; MARK CHAPTER 6 MARK 6:1 Christ is slighted by his own countrymen. MARK 6:7 He sendeth out the twelve with power over unclean spirits. MARK 6:14 The opinions of Herod and others concerning him. MARK 6:16 John the Baptist imprisoned and beheaded by Herod at the instigation of Herodias. MARK 6:... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 6:4

Ver. 4-6. Experience tells us that familiarity breeds a contempt. Our Saviour (though there was a deeper cause) assigns this the cause why those of Nazareth paid him no greater respect. Unbelief in us bindeth the hands of God. HE COULD THERE DO NO MIGHTY WORKS, he could not, not from a defect of pow... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 6:7

Ver. 7,8. Mark had before told us of the election of the twelve, MARK 3:14, which neither Matthew nor Luke mention: here he gives us an account of their mission, which is mentioned by both them also. The instructions which he gave them are much the same with what we meet with in MATTHEW 10:1, and th... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 6:9

Go in your ordinary habits, making no provision for yourselves, as travellers, who think they may need something before their return.... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 6:10

Ver. 10,11. MATTHEW 10:1, gives us a larger copy of the instructions given by Christ to the twelve than doth either Mark or Luke: SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 10:12", and following verses to MATTHEW 10:15.... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 6:12

Ver. 12,13. They executed both the trusts which Christ had reposed in them, preaching the gospel, and by miraculous operations confirming the doctrine which they brought to be from heaven. John Baptist, and Christ, and the twelve all preached the same doctrine, REPENT; that is, turn from your former... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 6:14

Ver. 14-29. We meet with this history in MATTHEW 14:1, to which I refer the reader, having there taken in the most considerable things in the relation of the same thing by Matthew or Mark. Mark calleth him _Herod the king, _ whom Mark and Luke called _tetrarch._ Herod was tetrarch of Galilee, but un... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 6:30

When Christ chose the twelve, it is said, LUKE 3:14,15, that _he ordained twelve, that they should be with him, and that he might send them forth to preach, and to have power to heal sicknesses, and to cast out devils._ So that till Christ's ascension, though they went out from him to preach and wor... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 6:31

Ver. 31-33. Matthew makes the cause of this motion of our Saviour's to have been his receiving the report of Herod's dealing with John the Baptist, as we often find him yielding to the fury of his adversaries. Mark assigns another reason, (as there may be several reasons or motives of and to the sam... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 6:34

When Christ came out of the ship, on the other side of the water, he found that the people had outwent the ship; they were come about with a desire to hear the word. He considered what miserable priests and teachers they had, so that they were indeed as sheep without a shepherd, having none but such... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 6:35

Ver. 35-44. We meet with the relation of this miracle MATTHEW 14:15, and shall again meet with it 1 THESSALONIANS 6:1. John relates it with some more particular circumstances, telling us it was Philip that moved our Saviour to dismiss them so seasonably, that they might provide themselves food, and... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 6:45

OLBGrk; Ver. 45,46. If this desert where Christ was were, as Luke saith, LUKE 9:10, a desert belonging to Bethsaida, those words, eiv to peran prov bhysaidan, are ill translated UNTO BETHSAIDA, and the marginal note in our larger Bibles is better, _over against Bethsaida._ Our Saviour here first sen... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 6:47

Ver. 47-52. SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 14:24", and following verses to MATTHEW 14:33. By the sea here is meant the lake of Gennesaret. _The fourth watch of the night_ was after four in the morning. The foregoing part of the night our Saviour had spent alone upon the mountain in prayer. _They were sore am... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 6:53

Ver. 53-56. SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 14:34", and following verses to MATTHEW 14:36. The charity of this people to their sick neighbours is very commendable, and instructive of us as to our duty to do good to others, as to their bodily wants and necessities, so far as we are able; but how much greater i... [ Continue Reading ]

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