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a vide iv. 24. b Ch. ee XIV. I.
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. iii, @ 2 ‘ > ~ a a 8 $4; ΧΧΝΗ * ἀκοὴν ᾿Ιησοῦ, 2. καὶ εἶπε τοῖς παισὶν αὐτοῦ. “ Οὗτός ἐστιν Ἰωάννης
7 (with ἀπὸ). ο Mk. vi. 14.
ὁ Βαπτιστής: αὐτὸς ’ ἠγέρθη ἀπὸ τῶν νεκρῶν, καὶ διὰ τοῦτο ai
Gal. ν. 6. δυνάμεις "ἐνεργοῦσιν ἐν αὐτῷ.” 3. Ὁ γὰρ Ἡρώδης κρατήσας τὸν με cit Ἰωάννην ἔδησεν adtov? καὶ ἔθετο ἐν φυλακῇι διὰ Ἡρωδιάδα τὴν
vi 18. 1 γυναῖκα Φιλίππου τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ αὐτοῦ.
Cor. v. 1; Vil. 2, 29.
3 , > 3 , lwdvvyns,* “«Οὐκ ἔξεστί σοι e Ch. xxi. 26. bl ξ
ο... ἀποκτεῖναι, ἐφοβήθη τὸν ὄχλον, ὅτι ὡς “προφήτην αὐτὸν
32. il il, 20.
”, ἔχειν ἅ αὐτήν.
4. ἔλεγε γὰρ αὐτῷ 6 5. Καὶ θέλων αὐτὸν εἶχον.
1 τετρααρχης in ΔΟ0ΖΔ. So Tisch. and W.H., though BD spell as in Τ.Ε. 2 88B omit αντον, which is an undisputed reading in Mk., whence it may have
been imported.
3 SB read ev φυλακη απεθετο, which Tisch. and W.H. adopt. “SSD omit art. before |. and BZ place αυτω after l.
22), chap. x.; Baptist (chap. iii.), chap. xi.; Pharisees (chap. iii. 7-9), chap. xii. ; popular preaching (iv. 23), chap. xiii. Chaps. viii., ix. disturb the order by grouping incidents illustrating the heal- ing ministry.
Ver. 1. ἐν ἐκείνῳ τῷ καιρῷ. Mk. connects with return of Twelve from . their mission (vi. 14), Mt. apparently with immediately preceding section. But the phrase recalls xi. 25, xii. 1, and it may be the evangelist is thinking generally of a time of prevailing in- susceptibility (Weiss-Meyer).—Hpw8ns : Herod Antipas, tetrarch of Galilee and Peraea for many years (4-39 A.D.), married to the daughter of Aretas, king of Arabia; like his father Herod the Great in cunning, ambition, and love of splendour in building and otherwise, whereof the new city of Tiberias was a monument (Schiirer, Gesch., i. 350).--ἀκοὴν, vide iv. 24. The fame of Jesus penetrated at last even into the royal palace, where very different matters occupied the atten- tion, ordinarily.—Ver. 2. παισὶν αὐτοῦ: not his sons, but his servants, 7.¢., the courtiers, great men in their way, not the menials in the palace. The king would propound his odd theory in familiar talk, not in solemn conclave.— οὗτός ἐστιν, etc. It is this theory we have to thank for the narrative following, which in itself has no special connection with the evangelic history, though doubt- less Christians would naturally read with interest the fate of the forerunner of Jesus. The king has the Baptist on the brain; and remarkable occurrences in the religious world recall him at once to mind. It is John! he (αὐτὸς) is risen;
theory begotten of remorse; odd enough, but better than Pharisaic one begotten of malevolence ; both witnessing to the extraordinary in Christ’s career.—éa τοῦτο: the living John did no miracles, but no saying what a dead one rvedivivus can do 2---ἐνεργοῦσιν, not: he does the mighty works, but: the powers (δυνάμεις) work in him, the powers of the invisible world, vast and vague in the king’s imagination.
Ver. 3. γὰρ implies that the following story is introduced to make the king’s theory intelligible. ‘‘ Risen” implies previous death, and how that came about must be told to show the psychological genesis of the theory. It is the super- stitious idea of a man who has murder on his conscience.—kpatyoas, etc. : fact referred to already in iv. 12, xi. 2; here the reason given. Of course Herod seized, bound, and imprisoned John through his agents.—8.a Ἡρωδιάδα: a woman here, as so often, the cause of the (ταρεάγ.- Ὑνναῖκα Φ.: vide on Mk. —Ver. 4. Eheye yap 6 |. The pro- gressive imperfect, with force of a pluperfect. John had been saying just before he was apprehended (Burton, Moods and Tenses, § 29).—ovx ἔξεστιν : doubly unlawful; as adultery, and as marriage within prohibited degrees (Lev. xvili. 16, xx. 21).—Ver. 5. θέλων: of. i. 19. Mark gives a fuller statement as to Herod’s feelings towards John. No injustice is done Herod here by ascribing to him a wish to get rid of John. There are always mixed feelings in such cases. Compare the relations of Alcibiades to Socrates as described by Plato (Zup- πόσιογ).- ἐφοβήθη τ. ὁ.: that for one