Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

Mark 12:38

ἐν τῇ διδαχῇ α.: this expression alone suffices to show that what Mk. here gives is but a fragment of a larger discourse of the same type an anti-scribal manifesto. Here again the evangelist bears faithful witness to a great body of διδαχή he does not record. Matthew 23 shows how much he omits at this point. ἔλεγεν : the imperfect here may be taken as suggesting that what follows is but a sample = He was saying things like this. βλέπετε ἀπὸ as in Mark 8:15. θελόντων, desiring, not so much claiming as their privilege (Meyer) as taking a childish pleasure in = φιλούντων, Luke 20:46. ἐν στολαῖς, in long robes, worn by persons of rank and distinction (“gravitatis index,” Grotius), possibly worn specially long by the scribes that the tassels attached might trail on the ground. So Wünsche, ad loc. vide picture of Pharisee in his robes in Lund, Heiligthümer. περιπατεῖν : infinitive, depending on θελόντων followed by accusatives, ἀσπασμοὺς, etc., depending on same word: oratio variata, vide Matthew 23:6.

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