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Mark 5

Mark 5 - Introduction

_CHRIST DELIVERING THE POSSESSED OF THE LEGION OF DEVILS, THEY ENTER INTO THE SWINE: HE HEALETH THE WOMAN WHO HAD THE BLOODY ISSUE, AND RAISETH FROM DEATH JARIUS'S DAUGHTER._ _Anno Domini 31._... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 5:4

BECAUSE, &C.— _For he had often been bound with fetters and chains, and had wrenched his chains, and broken his fetters, and nobody could tame him._ Respecting this miracle, see the notes on Matthew 8:28; Matthew 8:34 and Luke 8:26; Luke 8:56.... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 5:22

THERE COMETH ONE OF THE RULERS—JAIRUS— The _rulers of the synagogue_ were three persons chosen out of ten, who were obliged constantly to attend the public worship, over which they presided, and determined such disputes as happened in the synagogue. The synagogue over which this ruler presided was p... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 5:23

LIETH AT THE POINT OF DEATH— St. Luke agrees with St. Mark in this circumstance; but St. Matthew seems to add another. According to the latter, Jairus said (Matthew 9:18.), _my daughter is even now dead,_ αρτι ετελευτησεν; but he might utter both the expressions: for as his daughter lay expiring whe... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 5:25

WHICH HAD AN ISSUE OF BLOOD— _Who had had a bloody flux._ The circumstances in the next verse are mentioned by the Evangelist, to shew that the woman's disease was incurable, and that she herselfknew it to be so—circumstances, which at one and the same time demonstrate the greatness of the miracle.... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 5:27,28

THE PRESS—AND TOUCHED HIS GARMENT— _The throng,_ &c. and so Mark 5:30. Her disease being reckoned unclean, she was ashamed to mention it before the multitude; and having formed the highest idea of Christ's power, she resolved to try this method of cure, believing that no more was necessary to effect... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 5:29

AND—SHE WAS HEALED OF THAT PLAGUE— Μαστιγος,— of that washing and dangerous _distemper,_ with which she had been _chastised_ for so long a time. It was necessary that the ministry of the Son of God should be rendered illustrious by all kinds of miracles, and that all the people of the country where... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 5:30-34

AND JESUS, IMMEDIATELY KNOWING, &C.— It was for the reasons alleged in the last note, that Jesus would by no means allow the opinion which this woman entertained of his power and goodness to pass silent and unapplauded: therefore he immediately turned about in the crowd, and asked who it was that ha... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 5:37

AND HE SUFFERED NO MAN TO FOLLOW HIM, &C.— When Jesus came to the house, though a great many friends and others accompanied him, he suffered none of them to go in with him, except his three disciples, Peter, James, and John, with the father and mother of the maid; and even these perhaps he admitted... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 5:38

AND HE COMETH TO THE HOUSE, &C.— Namely, from the street, for that was the proper time to hinder the crowd from accompanying him. See Luke 8:51. It seems, the mother of the damsel, on seeing that Jesus was nigh, had gone out to the street to conduct him in, or waited for him in the porch of her hous... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 5:40

AND THEY LAUGHED HIM TO SCORN— The mourner, not of understanding Jesus, laughed him to scorn when they heard him say, _the damsel is not dead;_ for having seen all the marks and proofs of death about her, they were absolutely certain that she was dead; and yet, if they had given themselves time to c... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 5:42,43

AND STRAIGHTWAY THE DAMSEL AROSE, &C.— The damsel was raised, not in the languishing condition of those who come to life after having fainted away; but she was in a state of confirmedgood health, being hungry: this circumstance effectually shewing the greatness and perfection of the miracle, Jesus b... [ Continue Reading ]

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