_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_
Mark 5:1. GADARENES.—_Gerasenes_ is undoubtedly the true reading
here, and in Origen’s time it was the prevalent one; “but the
copyists, thinking this referred to the well-known Gerasa in Gilead,
and knowing that the miracle could not have occurred there, at a
distanc... [ Continue Reading ]
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_
Mark 5:22. RULERS OF THE SYNAGOGUE.—The synagogues had no clergy,
but were managed by laymen, who conducted or superintended the
services, and administered discipline. The rulers of Capernaum had
already (Luke 7:3) approached our Lord on behalf of the centurion who
b... [ Continue Reading ]