17. Running and kneeled. Two details peculiar to Mark.
18. Why callest thou, etc. Compare Matt. xix. 17. The renderings of the A. V. and Rev. Here are correct. There is no change of reading as in Matthew, where the text was altered to conform it to Mark and Luke.
22. He was sad (orvyvdcas). Applied to the sky in Matt. xvi. 3; lowering. The word paints forcibly the gloom which clouded his face.
25. Needle (padidos). A word stigmatized by the gram- marians as unclassical. One of them (Phrynichus) says, “As for padis, nobody would know what it is.” Matthew also uses it. See on Matt. xix. 24. Luke uses Bedovns, the surgical needle. See on Luke xviii. 25.
30. Houses, etc. These details are peculiar to Mark. Note especially with persecutions, and see Introduction. With beau-
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tiful delicacy the Lord omits wives ; so that Julian’s scoff that the Christian has the promise of a hundred wives is without foundation.
32. Were amazed. The sudden awe which fell on the dis- ciples is noted by Mark only.
42. Which are accounted to rule. Wyc., that seem to have princehead on folks.
43. Minister. See on ix. 35.
45. For many (av7i woddo@v). or, in the sense of over against, instead of ; not on behalf of.
46. Son of Timaeus. Mark, as usual, is particular about names.
Blind. Diseases of the eye are very common in the East. Thomson says of Ramleh, “The ash-heaps are extremely mis- chievous ; on the occurrence of the slightest wind the air is filled with a fine, pungent dust, which is very injurious to the eyes. I once walked the streets counting all that were either blind or had defective eyes, and it amounted to about one-half the male population. The women I could not count, for they are rigidly veiled” (“Land and Book”). Palgrave says that ophthalmia is fearfully prevalent, especially among children. “Tt would be no exaggeration to say that one adult out of every five has his eyes more or less damaged by the conse- quences of this disease” (‘‘ Central and Eastern Arabia”).
Beggar. See on Matt. v. 3.
49, 50. Peculiar to Mark, and adding greatly to the vividness of the narrative.
50. Rose (avacras). The best texts read avamnénaas, leaped up, or, as Rev., sprang up.
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