unto the half of my kingdom Compare the words of Ahasuerus (i. e. Xerxes) to Esther: "What is thy petition, queen Esther? and it shall be granted thee: and what is thy request? and it shall be performed, even to the half of the kingdom" (Esther 5:3; Esther 7:2).
MARK 6:23 auvth|/ @polla,# {C} Since the use of polla, in an adverbial sense (= “much, vehemently”) is a characteristic of Markan style ( Mark 1:45;...
Verse 23. _UNTO THE HALF OF MY KINGDOM._] A noble price for a _dance_! This _extravagance_ in favour of _female dancers_ has the fullest scope in the east, even to the present day. M. _Anquetil_ _du...
CHAPTER 6 _ 1. The Servant rejected in Nazareth. (Mark 6:1. Matthew 13:54; Luke 4:16)_ 2. The Servant sends forth the Twelve. (Mark 6:7 .
HEROD AND JESUS. THE END OF JOHN THE BAPTIST. Wellhausen, J. Weiss, and Klostermann would begin a new period with this section the period of constant wandering, in which Jesus is mostly outside Galile...
WITHOUT HONOR IN HIS OWN COUNTRY (Mark 6:1-6)...
But when Herod heard about it, he said, "This is John, whom I beheaded, risen from the dead." For Herod had sent and seized John and had bound him in prison because of the affair of Herodias, his brot...
ἝΩΣ ἩΜΊΣΟΥΣ Τ. ΒΑΣ. Μ. Cf. Ahasuerus and Esther (Esther 5:2-3), a story which may have influenced this narrative. But, in his cups, Antipas would not stop to consider whether he _could_ give away his...
14–29. THE MURDER OF THE BAPTIZER Matthew 14:1-12; Luke 9:7-9; Luke 3:19-20...
Ver 17. For Herod himself had sent forth and laid hold upon John, and bound him in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife: for he had married her. 18. For John had said unto Herod, "It i...
_THE FATE OF JOHN THE BAPTIST MARK 6:14-29:_ Guilt caused Herod to believe that Jesus was John the Baptist raised from the dead. Many, through the years, have believed the erroneous doctrine of the "t...
ΏΜΟΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΌΜΝΎΩ (G3660) клясться. О клятве Ирода _см._ НА, 165-67; ВВС. ΑΊΤΗΣΗΣ _aor. conj. act., см._ Mark 6:22. ΉΜΙΣΥΣ (G2255) половина....
_SUMMARY 6:1_7:23 The testimony for Jesus furnished by the preceding section, is based chiefly on the opinions which men formed concerning him. The disciples, though slow and hard of heart to realize...
6. THE DEATH OF JOHN THE BAPTIST 6:14-29 _TEXT 6:14-29_ And king Herod heard thereof; for his name had become known: and he said, John the Baptist is risen from the dead, and therefore do these power...
And he sware unto her, Whatsoever thou shalt ask of me, I will give it thee, unto the half of my kingdom. AND HE [THE KING, SO CALLED, BUT ONLY BY COURTESY (SEE THE NOTE AT ] SWARE UNTO HER, WHATSO...
18 It was contrary to the plainest precepts of the law to marry the wife of a brother (Lev_18:16; Lev_20:21). This Herod was usually surnamed _ Antipas_, being the son of Herod the great and a Samarit...
VISIT TO NAZARETH. MISSION OF THE TWELVE. EXECUTION OF THE BAPTIST. FEEDING OF THE FIVE THOUSAND. WALKING ON THE SEA 1-6. Visit to Nazareth (Matthew 13:54)....
HEROD AND JESUS. EXECUTION OF THE BAPTIST (Matthew 14:1). See on Mt: cp. Luke 9:7....
CHRIST IN THE BIBLE: MARK’S GOSPEL _KEITH SIMONS_ This commentary HAS BEEN through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 6 JESUS IN NAZARETH VERSES 1-6 Everywhere that Jesus went, the crowds came. They w...
CHAPTER 6:14-29 (MARK 6:14) HEROD "And King Herod heard thereof; for His name had become known: and he said, John the Baptist is risen from the dead, and therefore do these powers work in him. But ot...
ἡμίσους, genitive of ἥμισυς, like ἡμίση (τὰ, plural), a late form = _the half_, of my kingdom: maudlin amorous generosity....
_The fatal day_....
_Story of Herod and the Baptist_ (Matthew 14:3-12). Herod's endorsement of the theory that Jesus is John _redivivus_ gives a convenient opportunity for reporting here _post eventum_ the Baptist's fate...
MARTYRDOM OF A WITNESS-BEARER Mark 6:21-29 Better the dungeon with John than the palace with Herod, for conscience filled the palace with the ghost of the murdered Baptist! A woman brought Herod to t...
"He could there do no mighty work." Not that He in Himself was unable, for His hands laid on a few sick folk brought healing, but that the condition of wilful and persistent unbelief limited the power...
(14) And king Herod heard _of him;_ (for his name was spread abroad:) and he said, That John the Baptist was risen from the dead, and therefore mighty works do shew forth themselves in him. (15) Other...
It is remarkable how tradition has contrived to injure the truth in touching the question of the method of the gospel we now enter on; for the current view which comes down to us from the ancients, st...
In that which follows, the history (properly so called) of His service is resumed (chapter 6). Only we see Him already rejected by a blinded people, in spite of the power which He had manifested, and...
AND HE SWARE UNTO HER,.... He added an oath to what he had before said, the more to confirm it, and to encourage her in her request, and which he repeated in stronger language: WHATSOEVER THOU SHALT...
And he sware unto her, Whatsoever thou shalt ask of me, I will give _it_ thee, unto the half of my kingdom. Ver. 23. _To the half of my kingdom_] What was his whole kingdom to the life of that precio...
_For Herod had laid hold on John_, &c. See the note on Matthew 14:3. _Herodias had a quarrel against him_ This princess was the granddaughter of Herod the Great, by his son Aristobulus, and had former...
John the Baptist beheaded. Matthew 14:1-12....
The birthday festival:...
AND HE SWARE UNTO HER, WHATSOEVER THOU SHALT ASK OF ME, I WILL GIVE IT THEE, UNTO THE HALF OF MY KINGDOM....
14-29 Herod feared John while he lived, and feared him still more when he was dead. Herod did many of those things which John in his preaching taught him; but it is not enough to do many things, we m...
SEE POOLE ON "MARK 6:14...
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THE WIDER MINISTRY BEGINS - THE APOSTLES ARE SENT OUT - OPPOSITION CONTINUES (6:6A-56). Having established that Jesus is Lord of the elements, Lord over evil spirits and Lord over life and death, Mark...
THE RESPONSE OF KING HEROD IN VIEW OF HIS PREVIOUS EXECUTION OF JOHN THE BAPTISER (6:14-29). Meanwhile it was inevitable that news of the activities and power of Jesus, and of His disciples, would re...
‘And when an opportune day was come, that Herod on his birthday made a feast for his court officials and military officers and the chief men of Galilee, and when Herodias' daughter herself came in and...
THE entire independence of Mark's Gospel is fully apparent in this section, which tells of one of the few events recorded by all four Evangelists. In the emendations we have sought to reproduce the vi...
SEE on Matthew 14:1-13; comp. Luke 9:7-9. Mark's account is detailed, going back to the imprisonment of John, which occurred before our Lord began His Galilean ministry....
MATTHEW prefaces his fuller account by telling of our Lord's compassion for the multitudes (Matthew 9:36-38). Luke gives a very brief statement (Luke 9:1-6). The _choice_ of the Twelve took place some...
Mark 6:23. UNTO THE HALF OF MY KINGDOM. The full form of the oath is here preserved. Ahasuerus (Esther 7:2) made a similar oath to his queen; this was to a girl whose graceful immodesty had pleased th...
AND HE SWARE UNTO HER (κα ωμοσεν αυτη). The girl was of marriageable age though called κορασιον (cf. Esther 2:9). Salome was afterward married to Philip the Tetrarch. The swaggering oath to the hal...
CONTENTS: The twelve sent out to preach. Murder of John the Baptist. The 5000 fed. Jesus walks on the sea. Jesus heals many at Gennesaret. CHARACTERS: Jesus, disciples, Herod, Herodias, her daughter,...
Mark 6:3. _Is not this the carpenter?_ The jews were bound to teach their children some trade, as no man could say what the vicissitudes of life might be. Hence Lightfoot cites the following passage f...
_And king Herod heard of Him; (for His name was spread abroad:) and he said, That John the Baptist was risen from the dead._ THE SOVEREIGN POWER OF CONSCIENCE I. Now we are to begin with simply consi...
MARK—NOTE ON MARK 6:23 UP TO HALF OF MY KINGDOM should be seen as a figure of speech rather than a literal promise. ⇐...
MARK—NOTE ON MARK 6:14 The death of John the Baptist casts an ominous shadow on Jesus’ future. Jesus’ life is in danger, partly because of his authoritative, miraculous deeds. ⇐
MARK—NOTE ON MARK 6:7 Work beyond Galilee. The disciples are sent out to spread the message of God’s kingdom, to heal, and to cast out demons. Jesus again demonstrates his authority and warns his disc...
HEROD KILLS JOHN THE BAPTIST MATTHEW 14:1-12; MARK 6:14-29; LUKE 9:7-9; MATTHEW 14:1 At that time Herod the tetrarch heard of the fame of Jes
CHAPTER 6 1 _Christ is contemned of his countrymen_. 7 _He giveth the twelve power over unclean spirits_. 14 _Divers opinions of Christ_. 27 _John Baptist is beheaded_, 29 _and buried_. 30 _The apostl...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ Mark 6:19. HAD A QUARREL.—_Fostered a grudge_. Her inward enmity only waited for an opportunity to break forth in open hostilities. Mark 6:20. OBSERVED.—_Or preserved,...
EXPOSITION MARK 6:1 Our Lord now left the neighbourhood of Capernaum, and came INTO HIS OWN COUNTRY, the district of Nazareth, where he had been, not born indeed, but brought up, and where his kinsfo...
Shall we turn to Mark's gospel, chapter 6. Jesus had been in the city of Capernaum there on the northern part of the Sea of Galilee. And He has just brought back to life the daughter of Jairus, one of...
1 Samuel 28:10; 2 Kings 6:31; Esther 5:3; Esther 5:6; Esther 7:2;...
THE BEHEADING OF JOHN THE BAPTIST Mark 6:14 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. John was great in his separation unto Christ. He lived apart from the people In a vow of separation unto God. Here is a part of the...
HEROD, OR, ALMOST BUT LOST Mark 6:14 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The record of Herod shall ever remain as a warning to those who are almost saved. Let us suggest a few others who came close to the door of e...
To the half of my kingdom — A proverbial expression....