_CHRIST IS CONTEMNED OF HIS COUNTRYMEN: HE GIVETH THE TWELVE POWER OVER UNCLEAN SPIRITS. DIVERS OPINIONS OF CHRIST. JOHN THE BAPTIST IS BEHEADED, AND BURIED. THE APOSTLES RETURN FROM PREACHING. THE MIRACLE OF FIVE LOAVES AND TWO FISHES. CHRIST WALKETH ON THE SEA: AND HEALETH ALL THAT TOUCH HIM._ _... [ Continue Reading ]
HE MARVELLED, BECAUSE OF THEIR UNBELIEF— He wondered at their perverseness, in rejecting him upon such unreasonable grounds as the meanness of his parentage. The Jews in general mistook their own prophesies, by expecting that the Messiah would exalt their nation to the highest pitch of wealth and po... [ Continue Reading ]
BY TWO AND TWO,— Jesus ordered his apostles to go in this manner, that they might encourage each other in their work, and confirm each other's testimony. See Matthew 10:2; Matthew 10:42.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND ANOINTED WITH OIL MANY THAT WERE SICK,— This probably was in conformity with the custom of the Jews, who made use of the imposition of hands, and the ceremony of anointing the sick with oil, when they offered up their prayers to heaven in their behalf. See James 5:14 and Grotius. _Mark 6:15. Oth... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR HEROD FEARED JOHN, &C.— _For Herod, knowing John to be a just and holy man, stood in awe of him, and protected him: he even did many things by his advice, and heard him with pleasure._ Heylin. _For Herod reverenced John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man; and he heard him with attenti... [ Continue Reading ]
A CONVENIENT DAY— See Matthew 14:6.... [ Continue Reading ]
REJECT— _Refuse._... [ Continue Reading ]
AND RAN AFOOT THITHER OUT OF ALL CITIES, &C.— The word Πεζη here may signify _by land,_ as Blackwall has shewn; for it appears from Matthew 14:14 that there were many with our Lord in the desart, who cannot be supposed to have walked thither; and as to their travelling with such speed as to arrive a... [ Continue Reading ]
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 opposite, and their backs turned to the backs of the next companies. This disposition appears from the... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WOULD HAVE PASSED BY THEM,— Εθελε παρελθειν, _seemed inclined to pass._ This appears the proper translation of the passage.... [ Continue Reading ]
SORE AMAZED— _Greatly amazed._ See on ch. Mark 4:39.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THEY CONSIDERED NOT, &C.— 'Ου γαρ συνηκαν : they had not a properideaof his miraculous power, demonstrated in that wonderful miracle; because if they had, his walking on the sea, and making the storm to cease, would not have affected them with so great a surprise; as the former was a more certai... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY KNEW HIM,— That is, the inhabitants of the country among whom he had before conversed. See Matthew 14:35. _Inferences_ from Herod's murder of the Baptist. We have observed in the Inferences on Matthew 14 with a particular reference to the case of Herod, how certainly conscience will do its duty... [ Continue Reading ]