Of many physicians (i7o0). Lit, under ; i.e.. under the hands of.
And was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse. Luke’s professional pride as a physician kept him from such a statement. Compare Luke viii. 43.
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28. For she said (édeyev). Imperfect tense. She was or kept saying as she pressed through the crowd, either to herself or to others.
29. She knew—she was healed. Note the graphic change in the tenses. éyvw, she knew; idtas, she is healed.
Plague. See on iii. 10.
30. Knowing (ézvyvods). Rev., percewing. Lit., having Sully known.
That virtue had gone out of him (ray é& avtod Sivayw é€eXJodcav). More correctly as Rev., that the power proceeding from him had gone forth. The object of the Saviour’s know]- edge was thus complex: Ist, his power ; 2d, that his power had
gone forth. This and the following sentence are peculiar to Mark.
32. He looked round about (zrepve@Aérero). Imperfect tense. He kept looking around for the woman, who had hidden herself in the crowd.
34. In peace (eis econvnv). Lit., into peace. Contemplating the peace in store for her. Mark alone adds, Be whole of thy plague.
35. From the ruler of the synagogue. From his house; for the ruler himself is addressed.
Troublest (cxvrrevs). See on Matt. ix. 36. Compare Luke xi. 22, where occurs the cognate word oxdna, spoils, things torn or stripped from an enemy. Wye., travailest. Tynd., dis- easest.
36. Heard. This is from the reading dxovcas (Luke viii. 50). The correct reading is wapaxovoas, which may be rendered either not heeding, as Rev. (compare Matt. xviii. 17), or over-
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hearing, as Rev. in margin, which, on the whole, seems the more natural. Disregarding would be more appropriate if the message had been addressed to Jesus himself; but it was ad- dressed to the ruler. Jesus overheard it. The present parti- ciple, AaXovpevor, being spoken, seems to fall in with this.
38. Seeth (Jewpé). Rev., beholdeth. See on ver. 15.
Wailing (ddaddfovras). A descriptive word of the hired mourners crying al-a-lai /
40. Putthem out. “ Wonderful authority in the house of a stranger. He was really master of the house” (Bengel). Only Mark relates the taking of the parents with the three dis- ciples into the chamber.
41, Maid («opdécvov). Not a classical word, but used also by Matthew.
49. Astonishment (écordcer). Better Rev., amazement, which carries the sense of bewilderment. "Exoracts, of which the English ecstasy is a transcript, is from é«, out of, and fornpt, to place or put. ts primitive sense, therefore, is that of removal ; hence of a man removed out of his senses. In Biblical Greek it is used in a modified sense, as here, xvi. 8; Luke v. 26; Acts iii. 10, of amazement, often coupled with fear. In Acts x. 10; xi. 5; xxii. 17, it is used in the sense of our
word ecstasy, and is rendered trance.
OHAPTER VI. 9. Astonished. See on Matt. viii. 28. Mighty works (duvdpers). Lit., powers. See on Matt. xi.
20. Tynd., virtues. Outcomings of God’s power : “ powers of the world to come” (Heb. vi. 5), at work upon the earth.
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3. The carpenter. This word “throws the only flash which falls on the continuous tenor of the first thirty years, from infancy to manhood, of the life of Christ ” (Farrar, “ Mes- sages of the Books”).
They were offended. See on Matt. v. 29. Tynd., hurt.
5. Sick (appeécrois). From a, not, and povvups, to strengthen. Sickness regarded as constitutional weakness.
7. By two andtwo. To help and encourage each other, and also for fulness of testimony.
8-12. See Matt. x.
14. Was spread abroad. “ But for the rumor, Herod would not have known of him. A palace is late in hearing spiritual news” (Bengel).