Mark 15:21. Coming from the country. Lit, ‘from the field.' This statement throws no light on the reason why they impressed him for this service, nor upon the question whether it was the regular feast day or not.

The father of Alexander and Rufus. Persons well known to the first readers of this Gospel. As Mark probably wrote in Rome, the ‘Rufus ‘saluted in Romans 16:13, may be the person here spoken of. But the name was a common one. This ‘Alexander,' can scarcely be the man put forward by the Jews at Ephesus (Acts 19:33), who may or may not be identical with the person mentioned in 1 Timothy 1:20; 2 Timothy 4:14.

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