is the son of thunder, inasmuch as it accompanies the crashing sound which proceeds from the rent clouds."
20. [Eng. Vers. 19]"E^oira/, they come) Jesus with His new family [This relation of Mark follows, not the order of time, but the change of places ; comp. ver. 7, 13; Harm. p. 311]. — £/; oJxov " to the house" rather than into the house ; comp. ver. 21, 31.
21. Oi -Trap avrov, those belonging to Him) See App. Grit. Ed. ii., p. 150. The Gothic Version fram answers to xipi and -rapa,.* Who these were, who belonged to Him, is clear from ver. 31, where the particle olv,2 therefore, refers to this 21st verse, after the intervening parenthesis 22—30 has been as it were cleared out of the way. — e^JjTJov, they went out) Their coming in ver. 31 followed their going out here. A table seems to have been laid at the house; see end of ver. 20. — KparSj<ra/, to lay hold) to put a restraint on him. — sXtyov, they were saying) the messengers [not the relatives] from whom his relatives heard of His earnest ness. — on l^arri, He is beside Himself) By this word they were attributing to Him excess of ardour, overwhelming His in tellect, but it was falsely that they attributed this to Him, as Festus did to Paul ; Acts xxvi. 24, Thou art mad. Comp. by all means 2 Cor. v. 13 ; comp. nptvg xa,} ^pop^n/is !g£<mi<rai< dia TO ffixtpa, Heb. lit?; Isa. xxviii. 7 ; so 6 vpoprirqs vctps^iffTqxuz, Heb. yit?D ; Hosea ix. 7. The singular number does not admit of this being understood of the people ; for although o^Xoj, a multitude, ver. 20 is singular, yet after an interval [between o%7.og and the verb, if the latter were to be understood of tne former], there always follow the pronoun and the verb in tne plural.
23. 3npoazaXzo-d[j,ti/oc, having called them to Him) By that very
1 AB Vulg. Rec. Text read x.u.1 dx.waa.vrts oi into dvrov ; but Dabc read KUI ore %JCOV<TXV vspl oti/rov oi ypttfip.oe.Tsts x.oe.1 ol Xo/cW (c has Pharissei.) — ED.
2 But the oldest authorities BCDG Vulg. abc omit ovv. A, however, supports it.— ED.
8 Ver. 22. ol diro iipoao^vft.™ x.crrctfi»vTe;, who came down from Jerusalem) on the days immediately before the Passover, when by this time all other men were going up. Jesus had been away from Jerusalem for a consider ably long interval of time : therefore at this particular time now they were trying to restrain [check] Him in Galilee, where a great multitude of people