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The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel According to St. Mark
Chadwick, G. A. (George Alexander) · 137,297 words · 189 reading sections
Chapter Xv.
Three hours of raging human passion, endured with Godlike patience, were succeeded by three hours of darkness, hushing mortal hatred into silence, and perhaps contributing to the penitence of the reviler at His side. It was a supernatural gloom, since an eclipse of the sun was impossible during the full moon of Passove…
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And the Father heard His Son. At that cry the mysterious darkness passed away; and the soul of Jesus was relieved from its burden, so that He became conscious of physical suffering; and the mockery of the multitude was converted into awe. It seemed to them that His Eloi might indeed bring Elias, and the great and notab…
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And there Jesus rested. His friends had no such hope as would prevent them from closing the door with a great stone. His enemies set a watch, and sealed the stone. The broad moon of Passover made the night as clear as the day, and the multitude of strangers, who thronged the city and its suburbs, rendered any attempt a…
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Christ Risen. “And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the _mother_ of James, and Salome, bought spices, that they might come and anoint Him. And very early on the first day of the week, they come to the tomb when the sun was risen. And they were saying among themselves, Who shall roll us away the …
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This confusion, however perplexing to thoughtless readers, is inevitable in the independent histories of such events, derived from the various parties who delighted to remember, each what had befallen himself. But even a genuine contradiction would avail nothing to refute the substantial fact. When the generals of Hen…
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Nor does any one pretend that the agents in this marvellous movement were insincere. If all this was a dream, it was a strange one surely, and demands to be explained. If it was otherwise, no doubt the finger of God has come unto us. The Ascension. “So then the Lord Jesus, after He had spoken unto them, was received…
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“He was received up into heaven!” What sublime mysteries are covered by that simple phrase. It was He who taught us to make, even of the mammon of unrighteousness, friends who shall welcome us, when mammon fails and all things mortal have deserted us, into everlasting habitations. With what different greetings, then, d…
705 wordsSECTION 188Footnotes
1 Cf. the admirable note in Archdeacon Watkins’ “Commentary on John.” 2 By the absence of the article in the Greek. 3 The opposite is asserted by the fact that one demon may ally himself with seven others worse. 4 The connection would be almost certain if the word “devil” were alike in both. But in all these narra…
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