are here combined with the greatest severity.1 — /<5oi), behold) cor responding to the same word in ver. 47.
50. rio<jj<r?j, shall do) He does not say does, but He speaks somewhat conditionally. — TO d'eXy/aa, the will) by which we are born again.2 — ecu™?, he) This man, and he only. — adsXpof, brother) This word is said for the third time with great force. — nai d&Xpj?, and sister) The plural appellation of brethren in ver. 46, 47, 48, 49, includes sisters also. — .a/jrjjp, mother) The climax.
2. To TrXo/bv, the vessel) The article indicates a particular vessel which was wont to be had there. — xai, x.r./v., and, etc.) sc. when the people saw Him. — a/y/aXdv, beach) Hesychius renders aiyiaXbg by 6 Tafa^aXacv/o? sv ro-Trw •^afAfAudu rj -briipidas <%M^ — i.e. " the seaside in a sandy place, or abounding with pebbles."
3. 'Ev vapafSoXa/'s, in parables) The Evangelist here indicates a remarkable period of Christ's teaching to the people in Galilee, as to the chief priests and elders of the people in Jerusalem. See Mark xii. 1, — r,pt,aro auro/g sv wapafioXaTs X'tytiv, He BEGAN to speak to them in parables.5 Parables are frequent in the East : but our Lord had previously taught much, in both places, without parables. The parables in the present passage are seven : four addressed to the people, in ver. 3, 24, 31, 33 ; and three to the disciples, in ver. 44, 45, 47.4
1 The reason for this severity is to be found in the parallel passage, Mark iii. 21, as Michaelis shows in the Einleitung, etc., T. ii., p. m. 1162. — E. B.
2 James i. 18.— E. B.
3 Compare Matt. xxi. 23. [Qy. 28]. — E. B.
4 The parable concerning the four different kinds of soil the Saviour ex plained to His disciples, at their request, before that He returned to the house — all other witnesses, however, being out of the way— whether His ex planation was given on the sea or on land, ver. 10 ; with which comp. Mark iv. 10. Then next He set forth the rest of the parables before the multi tude, Mark iv. 33 ; and, returning to the house, He cleared up also the parable