Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes
Mark 6:40
in rankest in divisions (like garden beds).
by. Greek. ana. App-104. All the texts read kata. App-104.
in rankest in divisions (like garden beds).
by. Greek. ana. App-104. All the texts read kata. App-104.
Verse 40. _BY HUNDREDS, AND BY FIFTIES._] "That is," says Mr. Wesley, "fifty in a rank, and a hundred in file. So, a hundred multiplied by fifty, made just five thousand." But if they sat fifty _deep_...
See this narrative explained in the notes at Matthew 14:13. Mark 6:32 BY SHIP - By a boat or a small vessel. PRIVATELY - Without making their plan known. They intended to go privately. It appears, h...
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 .
THE FEEDING OF THE MULTITUDE. Mk. regards the disciples-' need of rest after their missionary labours as the occasion for retirement. The hostility of Herod may also have contributed to the decision t...
WITHOUT HONOR IN HIS OWN COUNTRY (Mark 6:1-6)...
When it was now late the disciples came to Jesus. "The place, they said, "is lonely, and it is now late. Send them away that they may go into the surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselve...
_in ranks_ Literally, THEY RECLINED IN PARTERRES (_areolatim_). "As they sat in these orderly groups upon the grass, the gay red and blue and yellow colours of the clothing, which the poorest Oriental...
40. ΠΡΑΣΙΑΊ. Lit. “garden-beds” (Sir 24:31) or “plots.” The word indicates the shape of the “messes,” and perhaps implies that they were rectangular (Euthym.). See Wetstein for illustrations and cf. E...
30–44. RETURN OF THE TWELVE. FEEDING OF FIVE THOUSAND Matthew 14:13-21; Luke 9:10-17; John 6:1-14....
Ver 35. And when the day was now far spent, His disciples came unto Him, and said, "This is a desert place, and now the time is far passed: 36. Send them away, that they may go into the country round...
_JESUS FED THE FIVE THOUSAND MARK 6:30-44:_ The apostles returned to Jesus and told Him what they had done and what they had taught. He wanted them to have a little time to rest so he took them to a d...
ΆΝΈΠΕΣΑΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΆΝΑΠΊΠΤΩ (G377) упасть на спину, прилечь, ΠΡΑΣΙΆ (G4237) садовая грядка, имеется в виду расположение рядами. Ученики рабби часто имели обыкновение сидеть рядами, и это ср...
HE COMMANDED THEM, &C.— When the loaves and the fishes were brought, our Lord commanded his apostles to make the whole multitude sit down by companies, each consisting of two rows, with their faces op...
_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...
7. THE FEEDING OF THE FIVE THOUSAND 6:30-44. _TEXT 6:30-44_ And the apostles gather themselves together unto Jesus; and they told him all things, whatsoever they had done, and whatsoever they had tau...
And they sat down in ranks, by hundreds, and by fifties. AND THEY SAT DOWN IN RANKS, BY HUNDREDS, AND BY FIFTIES. Doubtless this was to show at a glance the number fed, and to enable all to witnes...
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)....
RETURN OF THE APOSTLES. FEEDING THE FIVE THOUSAND (Matthew 14:13; Luke 9:10; John 6:1). See on Mt and Jn. The graphic touches in Mk should be noticed: 'Come ye yourselves apart,' etc.; 'no leisure so...
RANKS] i.e. groups, lit. 'garden-beds.'...
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 6:30-46 (MARK 6:30) BREAD IN THE DESERT "And the apostles gather themselves together unto Jesus; and they told Him all things, whatsoever they had done, and whatsoever they had taught. And He...
πρασιαὶ πρασιαὶ = ἀνὰ πρασίας, in garden flower plots, or squares, picturesque in fact and in description, bespeaking an eye-witness of an impressionable nature like Peter....
_The feeding_ (Matthew 14:14-21; Luke 9:11-17)....
THE SYMPATHY AND COMPASSION OF JESUS Mark 6:30-56 When the Apostles returned they had much to tell. Some were flushed with success, others radiant with victory over demons, others, perhaps, overstrai...
"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...
And they sat down in (u) ranks, by hundreds, and by fifties. (u) The word signifies the beds in a garden, and it is literally, "by beds and beds", meaning by this that they sat down in rows one by an...
THE TWELVE RETURN Mark 6:30-44. “And the apostles come together to Jesus, and proclaim to Him all things, even so many things as they did, and so many things as they taught. He said to them, Come ye a...
CHAPTER 32 FEEDING THE MULTITUDES Matthew 14:13-21; Mark 6:32-44; Luke 9:10-17; & John 6:1-14. Mark: “And they de
(30) And the apostles gathered themselves together unto Jesus, and told him all things, both what they had done, and what they had taught. (31) And he said unto them, Come ye yourselves apart into a d...
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 THEY SAT DOWN IN RANKS,.... Or "beds": in such form as little beds are placed in a garden, or as rows of vines in a vineyard, in which form the scholars of the wise men sat in their schools: it is...
And they sat down in ranks, by hundreds, and by fifties. Ver. 40. _Sat down in ranks_] Gr. ranks, ranks, that is, rank by rank, _a_ as rows or borders of beds in a garden. _Ordinatim res in Ecclesia...
_When the day was far spent_, &c. See notes on Matthew 14:15, where the circumstances of the miracle here recorded are explained at large. _And they sat down in ranks_ Or rather, _in squares_, as Camp...
Five thousand fed, near the shore of the sea of Galilee. Matthew 14:15-21....
The feeding:...
30-44 Let not ministers do any thing or teach any thing, but what they are willing should be told to their Lord. Christ notices the frights of some, and the toils of others of his disciples, and prov...
SEE POOLE ON "MARK 6:34...
Mark 6:40 So G2532 down G377 (G5627) ranks G4237 G4237 in G303 hundreds G1540 and G2532 in G
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 DISCIPLES RETURN AND TAKE A BREAK - THE FEEDING OF FIVE THOUSAND PEOPLE (6:30-44). When the disciples returned and explained to Jesus all that had happened He sought to take them somewhere where t...
THE FEEDING OF THE FIVE THOUSAND (6:35-43). Many attempts have been made to rationalise this account. The suggestion is made that when the crowd saw the disciples (or the little boy) sharing food they...
‘And he commanded them that all should sit down group by group on the green grass. And they sat down in ranks, by hundreds and by fifties.' Peter remembered vividly the greenness of the grass, which i...
Mark 6:40. IN RANKS, BY HUNDREDS, AND BY FIFTIES, This is the fullest account of the way they were placed, though all four Evangelists intimate that the crowd was arranged in an orderly manner. Some h...
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...
THEY SAT DOWN IN RANKS (ανεπεσαν πρασια πρασια). They half-way reclined (ανακλιθηνα, verse Mark 6:39). Fell up here (we have to say fell down), the word ανεπεσαν means. But they were arranged in gro...
Mark 6:30 The Marvellous Meal. I. The disciples had been away from Jesus, on their first missionary tour, journeying on foot from town to town, preaching what He had taught them, and working miracles...
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...
_He answered and said unto them, Give ye them to eat._ MIRACLE OF THE LOAVES The miracles of Christ ought to be considered; they are not trifles, and they ought not to be passed over as if they were...
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. ⇐
Jesus feeds five thousand Matthew 14:13-21; Mark 6:30-44; Luke 9:10-17; John 6:1-15;...
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...
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Mark 6:33_ (PARALLELS: Matthew 14:13; Luke 9:10; John 6:1.) _The multitude fed_.—When Jesus came forth fr
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...
Luke 9:14; Luke 9:15...
In ranks [π ρ α σ ι α ι π ρ α σ ι α ι]. Lit., like beds in a garden. The former adverb, by companies, describes the arrangement; this the color. The red, blue, and yellow clothing of the poorest Orien...
They sat down in ranks — The word properly signifies a parterre or bed in a garden; by a metaphor, a company of men ranged in order, by hundreds and by fifties — That is, fifty in rank, and a hundred...