Mark 11:1-11
1–11. THE MESSIAH’S ENTRY INTO JERUSALEM Matthew 21:1-11; Luke 19:29-44; John 12:12-19... [ Continue Reading ]
1–11. THE MESSIAH’S ENTRY INTO JERUSALEM Matthew 21:1-11; Luke 19:29-44; John 12:12-19... [ Continue Reading ]
1. [2448] Latt. omit ΕἸΣ ΒΗΘΦΑΓΉ, but the words should probably be retained. ΤῸ ἘΛΑΙΏΝ ([2449] kr) should probably be preferred to τῶν Ἐλαιῶν. [2448] Codex Bezae. 6th cent. Has a Latin translation (d) side by side with the Greek text, and the two do not quite always agree. Presented by Beza to the... [ Continue Reading ]
ΟΥ̓ΔΕῚΣ ΟΥ̓́ΠΩ� ([2450][2451][2452][2453]) rather than οὐδεὶς� ([2454][2455][2456]); [2457][2458] have οὐδ. ἀνθρ. οὔπω, [2459][2460] have οὔπω οὐδ. ἀνθρ. [2450] Codex Vaticanus. 4th cent., but perhaps a little later than א. In the Vatican Library almost since its foundation by Pope Nicolas V., and... [ Continue Reading ]
ἈΠΟΣΤΈΛΛΕΙ ([2461][2462][2463][2464][2465][2466][2467]) rather than ἀποστελεῖ ([2468][2469]). ΠΆΛΙΝ ὯΔΕ ([2470][2471][2472][2473][2474][2475][2476]) rather than ὧδε ([2477][2478]2[2479][2480][2481][2482]). [2461] Codex Sinaiticus. 4th cent. Discovered by Tischendorf in 1859 at the Monastery of St K... [ Continue Reading ]
ΚΑῚ� ([2483][2484][2485][2486]) rather than ἀπῆλθον δέ. See on Mark 1:14. [2483] Codex Sinaiticus. 4th cent. Discovered by Tischendorf in 1859 at the Monastery of St Katharine on Mount Sinai. Now at St Petersburg. The whole Gospel, ending at Mark 16:8. Photographic facsimile, 1911. [2484] Codex Va... [ Continue Reading ]
ΤΩ͂Ν ἘΚΕΙ͂ ἙΣΤΗΚΌΤΩΝ. See on Mark 9:1. Lk. says that they were the owners, which is probable; but in a village everyone knows everyone, and bystanders would see that the disciples were not the owners, and would ask their business. That the owners were Lazarus and his sisters is not a probable conjec... [ Continue Reading ]
ΚΑΘΏΣ. _Even as_. They delivered Christ’s message exactly. Lk. transfers καθώς to their experiences; everything happened exactly as He had foretold. ἈΦΗ͂ΚΑΝ ΑΥ̓ΤΟΎΣ. The owners let the two disciples go with the colt. They knew ὁ κύριος by reputation and were sure that He would be as good as His wor... [ Continue Reading ]
ΦΈΡΟΥΣΙΝ ([2487]c[2488][2489][2490][2491]) rather than ἄγουσιν ([2492][2493][2494] or ἤγαγον ([2495][2496][2497][2498][2499]). ἘΠΙΒΆΛΛΟΥΣΙΝ ([2500][2501][2502][2503][2504][2505]) rather than ἐπέβαλον ([2506][2507][2508][2509][2510]). [2487] Codex Sinaiticus. 4th cent. Discovered by Tischendorf in 1... [ Continue Reading ]
ΚΑῚ ΠΟΛΛΟΊ ([2511][2512][2513][2514][2515]) rather than πολλοὶ δέ ([2516][2517][2518] See on Mark 1:14. ΚΌΨΑΝΤΕΣ ἘΚ ΤΩ͂Ν� ([2519][2520][2521][2522][2523]) rather than ἔκοπτον ἐκ τῶν δένδρων καὶ ἐστρώννυον εἰς τὴν ὁδόν or ἐν τῇ ὁδῷ ([2524][2525][2526][2527][2528][2529]). [2511] Codex Sinaiticus. 4th... [ Continue Reading ]
9. [2530][2531][2532][2533][2534] omit λέγοντες. [2530] Codex Sinaiticus. 4th cent. Discovered by Tischendorf in 1859 at the Monastery of St Katharine on Mount Sinai. Now at St Petersburg. The whole Gospel, ending at Mark 16:8. Photographic facsimile, 1911. [2531] Codex Vaticanus. 4th cent., but p... [ Continue Reading ]
10. [2535][2536][2537][2538][2539][2540] omit ἐν ὀνόματι Κυρίου (from Mark 11:9). [2535] Codex Sinaiticus. 4th cent. Discovered by Tischendorf in 1859 at the Monastery of St Katharine on Mount Sinai. Now at St Petersburg. The whole Gospel, ending at Mark 16:8. Photographic facsimile, 1911. [2536]... [ Continue Reading ]
11. Here and Mark 11:14-15, ὁ Ἰησοῦς is omitted in most MSS., including the best. 11. ΕἸΣ ΤῸ ἹΕΡΌΝ. This defines εἰς Ἰεροσόλυμα more exactly, just as the approach towards Jerusalem is defined more exactly by εἰς Βηθφαγή (Mark 11:1). The ἱερόν is the whole of the Temple-enclosure or τέμενος, includi... [ Continue Reading ]
ΤΗ͂Ι ἘΠΑΎΡΙΟΝ. This is commonly understood to be Monday 11th Nisan. ἘΠΕΊΝΑΣΕΝ. The reality of Christ’s manhood is again conspicuous, and that in three ways. He suffered hunger; until He went up to the fig-tree, He did not know that it had nothing but leaves; then He felt disappointment. This hunger... [ Continue Reading ]
12–14. THE BRAGGART FIG-TREE Matthew 21:18-19... [ Continue Reading ]
ἸΔῺΝ ΣΥΚΗ͂Ν�. It was a single tree by the roadside (Mt.), and its having leaves before the season would make it conspicuous. See on Mark 5:6 for the pleonastic ἀπό. ΕἸ ἌΡΑ ΤΙ ΕὙΡΉΣΕΙ. _Si quid forte inveniret_ (Vulg.). Mt. characteristically omits an expression which implies ignorance in Christ, an... [ Continue Reading ]
ἈΠΟΚΡΙΘΕΊΣ. He “answered” the deceptive profession of the fig-tree. Cf. Mark 9:5; Mark 10:51; Mark 14:49. ΜΗΚΈΤΙ … ΜΗΔΕΊΣ. The opt. of wishing (φάγοι) occurs 35 times in N.T. But only here and Acts 8:20 is the wish for something evil. Burton § 176. Neither here nor at Mark 1:44 (see note) is there a... [ Continue Reading ]
ἬΡΞΑΤΟ ἘΚΒΆΛΛΕΙΝ. The work would take some time and He began it at once. He refused to begin to teach in the presence of such a scandal, and in order to be thorough He treated buyers as being as offensive as sellers. In the true text ([2628][2629][2630][2631][2632] ἀγοράζοντας has the art. The buyer... [ Continue Reading ]
15–19. THE CLEANSING OF THE TEMPLE Matthew 21:12-17; Luke 19:45-48. Cf. John 2:14-22... [ Continue Reading ]
ΟΥ̓Κ ἬΦΙΕΝ ἽΝΑ. Cf. Mark 6:25; Mark 9:30; Mark 15:36. This detail, peculiar to Mk, may be one of Peter’s recollections. Making the Temple a thoroughfare seems not to have been formally permitted, but the hierarchy could easily have stopped it, and did not do so.... [ Continue Reading ]
ἘΔΊΔΑΣΚΕΝ. Mt. once more (see on Mark 6:34; Mark 10:1) mentions healing where Mk and Lk. mention teaching; but Mt. records more of Christ’s latest teaching than they do. Cf. Acts 3:2. Although Jesus had allowed Himself to be proclaimed as the Messiah, yet He goes back to His old work of teaching (an... [ Continue Reading ]
ΟἹ�. So in [2633][2634][2635][2636][2637][2638][2639][2640]. The order in A.V. has little authority. For the first time in Mk, Mt. and Lk., the chief priests appear in active hostility to Christ. Their gains were being touched. It was as when Luther attacked Pope and clergy and denounced the sale of... [ Continue Reading ]
ὍΤΑΝ ([2541][2542][2543][2544][2545][2546][2547]) rather than ὅτε ([2548][2549][2550][2551][2552]). ἘΞΕΠΟΡΕΎΟΝΤΟ ([2553][2554][2555][2556][2557][2558]) is probably to be preferred to ἘΞΕΠΟΡΕΎΕΤΟ ([2559][2560][2561][2562][2563][2564]), but it may be a correction to harmonize with παραπορευόμενοι (Mar... [ Continue Reading ]
ΠΡΩΪ́. This was the _following_ morning (Tuesday), the day in that week about which we have most information, excepting Friday. But the interval between the first and second seeing of the tree may have been shortened in tradition. Mt., as often, enhances the miracle. He banishes the interval altoge... [ Continue Reading ]
20–25. THE LESSON OF THE WITHERED FIG-TREE Matthew 21:19-22... [ Continue Reading ]
ἈΝΑΜΝΗΣΘΕΊΣ. Perhaps none of them thought much about it, until the tree was seen in its changed condition. Then Peter remembered the unusual words to which they had listened (Mark 11:14). ῬΑΒΒΕΊ. See on Mark 9:5; Mark 10:51. ἫΝ ΚΑΤΗΡΆΣΩ. That is Peter’s view; the words as recorded are a prayer rat... [ Continue Reading ]
ἈΠΟΚΡΙΘΕΊΣ. For the curious combination of aor. part. with pres. indic. see on Mark 8:29 _sub fin_. No direct answer is given to Peter’s remark, which was meant to raise the question of a judgment on the tree. Christ does not gratify his natural curiosity, but gives to all of the Apostles a lesson l... [ Continue Reading ]
23. [2565][2566][2567][2568] omit γάρ, [2569][2570][2571][2572] omit δ ἐὰν εἴπῃ. [2565] Codex Sinaiticus. 4th cent. Discovered by Tischendorf in 1859 at the Monastery of St Katharine on Mount Sinai. Now at St Petersburg. The whole Gospel, ending at Mark 16:8. Photographic facsimile, 1911. [2566] C... [ Continue Reading ]
ἘΛΆΒΕΤΕ ([2573][2574][2575][2576][2577][2578]) rather than λαμβάνετε ([2579][2580][2581][2582][2583]). [2573] Codex Sinaiticus. 4th cent. Discovered by Tischendorf in 1859 at the Monastery of St Katharine on Mount Sinai. Now at St Petersburg. The whole Gospel, ending at Mark 16:8. Photographic facs... [ Continue Reading ]
ὍΤΑΝ ΣΤΉΚΕΤΕ ΠΡΟΣΕΥΧΌΜΕΝΟΙ. _Whenever ye stand in prayer_. Christ says “stand” because that was the usual posture among the Jews (1 Samuel 1:26; 1 Kings 8:14; 1 Kings 8:22; Nehemiah 3:4; Matthew 6:5; Luke 18:11; Luke 18:13). Yet kneeling was not unusual in cases of special earnestness (1 Kings 8:54;... [ Continue Reading ]
26. [2584][2585][2586][2587][2588][2589] omit the verse (from Matthew 6:15). [2584] Codex Sinaiticus. 4th cent. Discovered by Tischendorf in 1859 at the Monastery of St Katharine on Mount Sinai. Now at St Petersburg. The whole Gospel, ending at Mark 16:8. Photographic facsimile, 1911. [2585] Codex... [ Continue Reading ]
ἜΡΧΟΝΤΑΙ ΠΆΛΙΝ. Apparently the same day (Tuesday), but later than πθωῒ in Mark 11:20; it is called “The Day of Questions.” We may think of the scene as the Court of the Gentiles (Mark 11:15-17) in which He was walking, and teaching as He had opportunity. For the constr. see on Mark 9:28. ΟἹ�.Τ.Λ. Se... [ Continue Reading ]
27–33. THE SANHEDRIN’S QUESTION ABOUT THE AUTHORITY OF JESUS Matthew 21:23-27; Luke 20:1-8... [ Continue Reading ]
ἘΝ ΠΟΊΑΙ ἘΞΟΥΣΊΑΙ; “In the right of what _kind_ of authority art Thou acting thus?” Cf. Acts 4:7. They refer specially to His interference with the hierarchy respecting the Temple-market, but indirectly they challenge His whole career. It was a reasonable question, and they were the right people to... [ Continue Reading ]
29. [2590][2591][2592][2593][2594][2595] omit ἀποκριθείς. See on Mark 5:9; Mark 10:5. [2596][2597][2598][2599] omit κἀγώ. [2590] Codex Sinaiticus. 4th cent. Discovered by Tischendorf in 1859 at the Monastery of St Katharine on Mount Sinai. Now at St Petersburg. The whole Gospel, ending at Mark 16:8... [ Continue Reading ]
ΤῸ ΒΆΠΤΙΣΜΑ. The most conspicuous characteristic of John’s preaching is taken as indicating his whole teaching as a reformer, just as justification by faith is taken to indicate the teaching of Luther. See on Mark 1:4. ἘΞ ΟΥ̓ΡΑΝΟΥ͂. A reverent desire to avoid using the Divine Name caused the Jews to... [ Continue Reading ]
ΔΙΕΛΟΓΊΖΟΝΤΟ ΠΡῸΣ ἙΑΥΤΟΎΣ. Does this mean the same as πρὸς� (Mark 4:41; Mark 8:16), and that they discussed with one another what reply they had better give? Mt. thinks this improbable and substitutes ἐν ἑαυτοῖς: the debate took place in the mind of each with the same general result. Lk. takes the o... [ Continue Reading ]
ὌΧΛΟΝ ([2600][2601][2602][2603] 33) rather than λαόν ([2604][2605][2606][2607][2608][2609][2610]), which Mk never uses in his narrative. [2600] Codex Sinaiticus. 4th cent. Discovered by Tischendorf in 1859 at the Monastery of St Katharine on Mount Sinai. Now at St Petersburg. The whole Gospel, endi... [ Continue Reading ]
33. [2611][2612][2613][2614][2615][2616][2617] omit ἀποκριθείς. [2611] Codex Sinaiticus. 4th cent. Discovered by Tischendorf in 1859 at the Monastery of St Katharine on Mount Sinai. Now at St Petersburg. The whole Gospel, ending at Mark 16:8. Photographic facsimile, 1911. [2612] Codex Vaticanus. 4... [ Continue Reading ]