1-6. Compare Matt. x. 1, 7, 9-11, 14; Mark vi. 7-13. 1. Called together. Matthew and Mark have called to. 3. Take(aipere).. Lit., lift, with a view of carrying away.
Staves. Following the reading paBdous, for which read paBcor, staff.
Two coats (ava Sto yutdvas). Lit., two apiece : the force of avd, as in John ii. 6.
4. There abide. See on Matt. x. 10. 5. Shake off. Seeon Matt. x. 14.
6. Throughout the towns (cata Tas kopuas). Rev., rightly, villages. The preposition is distributive, village by village.
7-9. Compare Matt. xiv. 1-2; 6-12. Mark vi., 14-16,. 21-29. 4%. The tetrarch. See on Matt. xiv. 1.
That was done (rd yuvoueva). The present participle. Lit., all that is being done.
Was perplexed (Sumropev). Used by Luke only. From &:4, through, and amopéw, to be without away out. The radical idea of the compound verb seems to be of one who goes through the whole list of possible ways, and finds no way out. Hence, to be in perplexity.
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9. He desired (éfjrev). Rev., he sought. Te did more than desire.
10-17. Compare Mark vi. 30-44.
10. Declared (Sujyjcavro). Related everything throughout (dvd). See on ver. 39; ch. i. 1.
Bethsaida. Peculiar to Luke. It means Fishing-place.
Healed (caro) them that had need of healing (Sepazedas). See on ch. v. 15.
12. And when the day began to wear away. Omit when, tender, and the day began, etc. To wear away (kdvew). Lit., to decline. Wye., very literally, to bow down.
Lodge (xatadvcwow). Peculiar to Luke. Primarily the verb means to break up or dissolve. Hence often in New Tes- tament to destroy (Matt. v.17; Mark xiii. 2). Intransitively, to take up ones quarters ; lodge; either because the harness of the travellers’ horses is loosed, or because the fastenings of their garments are untied. The kindred word xarddupa, a guest-chamber, occurs, Mark xiv. 14; or inn, Luke ii. 7.
Victuals (€mvovtucpov). Only here in New Testament. Prop- erly a stock of provisions. Thus Xenophon. ‘ Cyrus hastened the whole journey, except when he halted in order to furnish himself with supplies” (émvctticpod Evexa).
Desert (¢pnum). See on Matt. xiv. 15.
13. Give ye. The ye emphatic, closing the sentence in the Greek order. See on Matt. xiv. 15.
Buy food. Compare Mark vi. 37.
14. ln a company (xdic/as). The plural, tn companies. Lit., table-companies. The word is also used in classical Greek
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of a couch for reclining at table. Only herein New Testament. See on Mark vi. 39.
16. Brake and gave (xatécAacev—édéOov). Note the two tenses, as in Mark vi. 41, and see note there.
To set before (wapaJetvat). Lit., to set beside, since the table was at the side of the guest. A common word for serving upa meal. Compare Luke x. 8; Acts xvi. 34. From the sense of placing beside, comes that of putting in charge, committing (Luke xii. 48; xxiii. 46; 1 Tim. i. 18). Hence the kindred noun mapadjxn (2 Tim. i. 12), @ deposit: that which I have committed.
17. Were filled. See on Matt. v. 6.
There were taken up of fragments that remained to them twelve baskets («al %p0n To mepiccedoay avTois Kdac- pdtov Kopiwot d@dexa). The Rev. is more accurate, putting the comma after adrots, to them, instead of after KNATMATOV, fragments ; and making the latter word depend on Kd¢guvor, bas- kets. Render, therefore, And there was taken up that which remained over to them, of broken pieces, twelve baskets.
Baskets. Sce on Matt. xiv. 20.
18-21. Compare Matt. xvi. 18-20. Mark viii. 27-30.
18. As he was praying. Peculiar to Luke.
90. Ye. Emphatic: “but ye, whom do ye say that Tam?”
The Christ of God. Each evangelist gives Peter’s confes- sion differently. Matthew, Zhe Christ, the Son of the living God. Mark, The Christ. See on Matt. xvi. 15. On Christ,