xill, 3; xv. 21. Of places: “A multitude from Galilee and Judaea,” ete. (iii. 7,8): The demoniac proclaimed his recovery in Decapolis (vy. 20): Jesus departed “ from the border of Tyre and came through Sidon unto the Sea of Galilee, through the midst of the borders of Decapolis” (vii. 31). Compare viii. 10; xi. 1; xii. 41; xiv. 68. Of number: The paralytic was “ borne of four” (ii. 8): The swine were about two thousand (v. 18): The twelve were sent out two and two (vi. 7): The people sat down by hundreds and jifties (vi. 40): “ Before the cock crow twece thou shalt deny me thrice” (xiv. 30). Of time: Jesus rose up in the morning, a great while before day (i. 85): “ The same day, when the even was come” (iv. 85). Compare xi. 11; Kiva GSi> xve-25.
But Mark does not confine himself to mere outward details. He abounds in strokes which bring out the feeling of his char- acters. He uses six different words expressive of fear, wonder, trouble, amazement, extreme astonishment. The compound exdauPetcta, greatly amazed, affrighted (ix. 15; xvi. 5, 6) oc- curs nowhere else in the New Testament. Thus the look and emotion of our Lord are portrayed : “ He looked round about on them with anger, being grieved at the hardness of their heart ” (iii. 5): “ He looked round about on them which sat round about him, and said, Behold my mother,” etc. (iii. 34): “ He looked round about” to see who had touched him in the crowd (v. 32): “ He marvelled because of their unbelief” (vi. 6): He looked on the young ruler and loved him (x. 21): He was moved with compassion toward the leper (i. 41): He seghed deeply in his spirit (viii. 12).
Similarly Mark depicts the tender compassion of the Lord. A beautiful hint of his delicate and loving appreciation of an ordinary need closes the story of the healing of the ruler’s daughter. In their joy and wonder at her miraculous restora- tion, the friends would naturally forget the immediate practical demand for food, of which the Lord promptly reminds them by his command that something should be given her to eat (v. 48). Luke notes the same circumstance. In like manner his appre- ciation of his disciples’ weariness appears in the words, “‘ Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place and rest awhile” (vi. 31).