47—58.
53- Καὶ ἐγένετο ὅτε ἐτέλεσεν ὁ
η ἐκεῖ it ἐλθὰ a ίδ ὐτοῦ. ἐδίδ n here a . ίδα αὐτοῦ, ἐδίδασκεν μετῆρεν ἐκεῖθεν 54. καὶ ἐλθὼν εἰς τὴν rie re Suite Αα ~ ~ > αὐτοὺς ἐν τῇ συναγωγῇ αὐτῶν, ὥστε ἐκπλήττεσθαι } αὐτοὺς καὶ 1.4 α λέγειν, * Πόθεν τούτῳ ἡ σοφία αὕτη καὶ αἱ δυνάµεις; 55. οὐχ οὗτός 24.
2ος
᾿Ιησοῦς τὰς παραβολὰς ταύτας,
nd Vi.
Lk. iv. 23, John
δν ἐν η νο Neyer: Μορώ μο et ἐστιν 6 τοῦ τέκτονος υἱός; οὐχί ἡ µήτηρ αὐτου Λέγεται Μαριάμ, eb. xi. 14.
οἱ ἀδελφοὶ αὐτοῦ Ιάκωβος καὶ ᾿Ιωσῆς ”
καὶ Σίµων καὶ Ιούδας; 56.
A A , > ΄ καὶ at ἀδελφαὶ αὐτοῦ οὐχὶ πᾶσαι πρὸς ἡμᾶς eior; πόθεν οὖν τούτῳ
ταῦτα πάντα; 57. Καὶ ἐσκανδαλίζοντο ἐν αὐτῷ.
Ὁ δὲ ᾿Ιησοῦς εἶπεν
αὐτοῖς, “Οὐκ ἔστι προφήτης ἄτιμος, εἰ μὴ ἐν τῇ πατρίδι αὐτοῦ ὃ ο Mk. vi. 4.
να a Ελ te > nm 55 καὶ ἐν τῇ οἰκίᾳ αὐτοῦ. , ~ διὰ τὴν ἀπιστίαν αὐτῶν.
1 εκπλησσ. in most uncials. 2 ]ωσηφ in ΒΟΣ.
3 BD omit avrov. in margin.
the general category of prevalent un- receptivity to which also the following narrative (xiv. 1-12) may be relegated. — Ver. 53. petipev: in classics to transfer something from one place to another. Hellenistic, intransitive = to remove one- self; one of Matthew’s words (xix. 1).— Ver. 54. πατρίδα, in classics father- land. Here and in parallels evidently = native town, home. Vide ver. 56 and Lk. iv. 16.—ovvaywyj, singular, not plural, as in Vulgate. One syn. index of size of town (Grotius).—éoere, with infinitive: tendency and actual result. They were astonished and said: πόθεν . .. δννάμεις, wisdom and marvellous works ; of the latter they had heard, of the former they had had a sample. Whence? that is the question; not from schools, parentage, family, social environment, or mere surround- ings and circumstances of any kind.— Ver. 55. 6 τ. τέκτονος vids: Mk. has 6 τέκτων, which our evangelist avoids; the son of the carpenter, one only in the town, well known to all—Mapuap . . . Ιάκωβος, etc., names given of mother and brothers, to show how well they know the whole family. And this other man just come back is simply another of the family whose name happens to be Jesus. Why should He be so different ? It is an absurdity, an offence, not to be commonplace. The irritation of the Nazareans is satisfactory evidence of the extraordinary in Jesus.—Ver. 57. Proverb, not Jewish merely, but common property of mankind; examples from Greek and Roman authors in Pricaeus and Wetstein,
1 Gor, Ἱν.
58. Καὶ οὐκ ἐποίησεν ἐκεῖ δυνάµεις πολλάς, 10; xii.23.
lwons is probably from Mk. N$Z have ιδια before πατριδι. which Tisch. and W.H. place
L omits και εν T. οικ. GUTOV.
including one from Pindar about fame fading at the family hearth (Olymp. Ode, xii, 3).—Ver. 58. Here also editorial discretion is at work. Mark states that Jesus was not able to work miracles in Nazareth, and that He marvelled at their unbelief. Matthew changes this into a statement that He did few miracles there because of their unbelief, and passes over the marvelling in silence.
CHAPTER XIV. DEATH OF THE Baptist: COMMENCEMENT OF A NEw DIVISION OF THE EVANGELIC HisTory.
Vv. 1-12. Death of the Baptist (Mk. vi. 14-29, Lk. ix. 7-9). This section might with advantage have been given as a short chapter by itself, and a new start made with the feeding of the thousands which forms the first of a series of narratives together giving the story of the later Galilean ministry (xiv. 13—xx. 16). In this section (1-12) Matthew still has his eye on Mark, the story of the fate of the Baptist being there the next after the section in reference to mother and_ brethren, excepting the mission of the Twelve (Mk. vi. 7-13) already related in Mt. (x. 5-15). Indeed from this point onwards Matthew follows Mark’s order. In the foregoing part of this Gospel the parallelism between it and Mark has been disturbed by the desire of the evangelist to draw largely on his other source, the Logia, and introduce teach- ing materials bearing on all the topics suggested in his introductory sketch of Christ’s early Galilean ministry: Didache, chaps. v.-vil.; apostolic mission (iv. 18-