also, as it were in the manner of a supplement, some particulars of considerable value, which had not been previously recorded by Matthew, but which were calculated to afford profitable in struction to believers, who by this time had become proficients in the truth.1
14. TLapado&^vai, was imprisoned} Mark writes as of a fact known to the reader, either from Matthew or from some other source of information. [Previously, more than once Jesus had visited the city of Jerusalem, as John relates. But His public walk in Galilee, and that a continued one (uninterrupted in its continuity) did not commence until after John was imprisoned. —
v.g.]
15. Tlev^.Tipurai o Kaifoq, the proper time is fulfilled) the time, of which Daniel wrote, viz., that of His kingdom coming : the time which ye have been expecting. Those who acknowledged that the time was fulfilled, had, as the next step to take, either to embrace the true Messiah as set forth here, or else false Messiahs : comp. Luke xxi. 8. It was not John, but our Lord Himself, who openly declared the fulfilment of the time. — /j.tru.votl'rt xal KiffriMrf, repent and believe) then you will be par takers in the Gospel.
16. 2/>&)va, Simon) Mark writes of Peter in such a style, and with such fulness, that he might easily seem as if he wrote by dictation from the mouth of that apostle [comp. ver. 1, last note].
rov 2/>wvoc) Either we should read thus,2 or only roS ; others, only auroD, in agreement with the parallel passages in the other Evangelists.3 Mark sometimes repeats names, ch.
1 Michaelis, in the Enleitung, etc., T. ii , p. 1154, etc., has tried to prove, by induction of particulars, that those things which Mark has either omitted or supplied, most especially accord with the tradition of the ancients, which represented Mark's aim in writing to have been with a view to the conver sion and edification of the Romans. — E. B.
2 This is preferred in the margin of both Editions of Bengel, to the omis sion of the reading rot/ 2/^wvoj, and is therefore marked with the sign £ ; with which also the Germ. Vers. agrees on this passage. — E. B.
ABLa have "Stpuvo; (and A prefixes roD). Dbc Vulg. and Rec. Text read ctvroiJ. Only later Uncial MS3. and later Syr. Version read O.VTOV rov 'Siftastos. — ED.
3 See Matt. iv. 18, the Greek. This makes KVTOV look like a harmonist's reading here. — ED.