_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ Mark 10:1. HE AROSE FROM THENCE.—Between the events just recorded and those of which the Evangelist now proceeds to treat many others had occurred, which he passes over. The most important of these were: 1. The visit of Christ to Jerusalem at the Feast of Tabernacle... [ Continue Reading ]
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Mark 10:13_ (PARALLELS: Matthew 19:13; Luke 18:15.) _Children welcomed to Christ_.—Infant baptism was assuredly in the mind, in the will, and in the intention of Christ at that moment. In fact, was it not baptism, only without the water? Where He stood visibly in... [ Continue Reading ]
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ Mark 10:18. _No one is good except God_. Mark 10:21. LOVED.—Possibly _caressed_. It is said to have been customary with Jewish Rabbis to kiss the head of such pupils as answered well. TAKE UP THE CROSS.—Omitted by א, B, C, D, Δ, and Vulg. Mark 10:22. WAS SAD.—_Turn... [ Continue Reading ]
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ Mark 10:24. See R.V. text and margin. Mark 10:25. IT IS EASIER FOR A CAMEL.—This is (as Dr. J. Morison aptly remarks) a fine, bold, hieroglyphic, hyperbolical way of speaking, that need impose on no one with a spark of poetry in his soul. The key to its import is hu... [ Continue Reading ]
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ Mark 10:30. THE WORLD TO COME.—_The age which is coming_—the Messianic or Christian era, which was inaugurated by the descent of the Holy Spirit—the Life-giver—on the Day of Pentecost. _Eternal life_ begins now, in this present world of sense and time. _MAIN HOMILET... [ Continue Reading ]
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Mark 10:32_ (PARALLELS: Matthew 20:17; Luke 18:31; John 11:53.) _On the way to Jerusalem_.—Every act of Christ relates not only to those disciples who were the immediate witnesses of it, and to events which then and there transpired, but also to His whole Church... [ Continue Reading ]
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ Mark 10:40. See R.V. for last clause, which, however, may also be rendered _same to them for whom it is prepared_ (made ready). “The throne is the prize of toils, not a grace granted to ambition,” Mark 10:45. “The human blood of the Eternal Son was the ransom paid t... [ Continue Reading ]
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ Mark 10:46. See R.V. for several graphic touches obscured by A.V. Mark 10:51. RABBONI.—The highest title he could give, the gradations being Rab, Rabbi, Rabban, Rabboni. See John 20:16. _MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Mark 10:46_ (PARALLELS: Matthew 20:29; Luk... [ Continue Reading ]