iii. 17, v. 37; sometimes he adds a relative pronoun to them, ch. ii. 20, iii. 24, etc., xvi. 14 ; and decidedly, ch. vi. 22, aurJj; rJjs 'Hpudiddos. — d/A£//3aXXovras a/ApifSXriffrpov) So LXX., Hal), i. 17: «/A£>//3aX£/ a,(i,<pi{3\rigrpov in the best MSS. Whence Isa. xix. 8, oi a//,p//3oA£%, the fishermen.
18. Evd'sug, immediately) Happy they, who quickly follow.
20. Miaduruv, the hired servants) It is probable from this that Zebedee was not a poor man.
21.1 EWeus, immediately [straightway]) Mark delights in this adverb. It has the effect of beautifully characterizing, especially in the first and second chapters, the rapid career of Christ, who was ever tending towards the goal, and the opportunities rapidly presented to Him, and His rapid successes. The Saviour did not in His acts proceed tardily. The particle vdXiv, again, which is frequently found in Mark, has a similar force.
22. 'E^ovffiav, authority) comp. ver. 27. [Matthew observes the same fact in his ch. vii. 28. General truths of this kind are related by one Evangelist in one place and connection, and by another in another and different connection. So the people are compared to "sheep left without a shepherd" in Matt. ix. 36, but at a subsequent time in Mark vi. 34. Mark, hoivever, in this passage, refers to the sermon on the mount ; whence it is evident that the healing of the mother-in-law of Peter, which Mark trans poses, followed the sermon on the mount, as we find the order of events in Matthew. — Harm., p. 235.]
23. Ka/, and) Mark, in the beginning of his history, records in what point of view both men and demons regarded Jesus. \_R may be taken for granted that neither Mark nor Luke (ch. iv. 33) in this narrative insist on the historic order of events, — Harm., p. 256]. — avixpafy, cried out) Most persons seem not to have previously known that the man was possessed. The power
1 K«i itaroffvorrtt/, and they enter) Luke, in the parallel passage, ch. iv. 31, has Kail xxrfadiv, and fie came down to. Nazareth no doubt was in a rather elevated position ; Capernaum more in a hollow, towards the sea. Those particulars which Mark, in this passage, and Matthew, ch. iv. 13, re cord as to the city of Capernaum, Luke combines together in the passage quoted from him [viz. the coming to Capernaum on the sea-coast, peculiar to Matthew, iv. 13 — and the teaching in the synagogue on the Sabbath, peculiar to Mark. — ED.] — Harm., p. 235.