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a? - Ν { 1 τῷ ᾿Ιησοῦ. 13. καὶ ἀκούσας
εἰς ἔρημον τόπον κατ ἰδίαν.
j Mk. vi. 33. αὐτῷ ; πεζῇ ” ἀπὸ τῶν πόλεων. 14. Καὶ ἐξελθὼν ὁ ᾿Ιησοῦς ® k Mk. vi. 5, ἐπ᾽ αὐτούς,' καὶ ἐθεράπευσε τοὺς Χ ἀρρώστους αὐτῶν.
13; Xvi. 18
3 nw ~
6 ‘Inoois ἀνεχώρησεν ἐκεῖθεν ἐν πλοίῳ ‘
καὶ ἀκούσαντες of ὄχλοι ἠκολούθησαν
εἶδε πολὺν ὄχλον, καὶ ἐσπλαγχνίσθη κά 15. Ὀψίας
x Cor. xi. δὲ γενομένης, προσῆλθον αὐτῷ οἱ μαθηταὶ αὐτοῦ ὅ λέγοντες, ““Ἔρημός 30. “hed ε ῃ κ χε ὧν nd 1 AO 4 ό 6 AY * λ | Acts xxvii. ἐστιν ὁ τόπος, καὶ ἡ ὥρα ἤδη ' παρῆλθεν ' ἀπόλυσον ὃ τοὺς ὄχλους,
9 (same sense).
ἵνα ἀπελθόντες εἰς τὰς κώµας ἀγοράσωσιν ἑαυτοῖς Bpdpata.”
16.
Ὅ δὲ ᾿Ιησοῦς εἶπεν αὐτοῖς, ““Οὖ Χρείαν ἔχουσιν ἀπελθεῖν: δότε
1 axovoas δε NBDLZ.
Ἄπεζοι 91.7.
5ΑΦΒΓ omit ο |.
4 αντοις in most uncials; ew αντους only in minusc.; from Mk.
5 9BZ omit αυτον.
much used at all; a plebeian word, according to Salmasius cited by Kypke, who gives instances from late authors.— Ver. 11. ἠνέχθη, not expressly said “there and then,” but all points to im- mediate production of the head on a platter in the banqueting hall before the guests; gruesome sight !—é860n, ἤνεγκε: what a nerve the girl must have had! her mother’s nature in her; the dancing and the cool acceptance of the horrible gift well matched.—kopaci@: not to be taken strictly ; a young unmarried woman, say, of twenty (Holtz., Η. C.). The dancing of a mere girl would have been no entertainment to the sensual revellers. The treat lay in the indecency. —vVer. 12. πτῶμα: carcase, used abso- lutely in this sense only in late writers. Earlier writers would say πτῶμα νεκροῦ. Lobeck, Phryn., 375.
Vv. 13-21. Fesus retires; feeding of thousands (Mk. vi. 30-44; Lk. ix. 10-17). —Ver.13. ἀκούσας, having heard of the fate of John from John’s disciples (ver. 12). —avexdpynoev ἐκεῖθεν: withdrew from where He was when the report reached Him ; locality not indicated. Mark con- nects the retirement with the return of the Twelve from their mission, and the report they gave, and assigns as motive rest for the missionaries. The two events might synchronise, and escape from Herod’s dangerous neighbourhood might be a joint motive for retirement. But against this is the speedy return (ver. 34).—év πλοίῳ: naturally suggests a place near the sea as starting-point. But it may be rather intended to indi- cate in what direction they were going— to the eastern side of the lake.—eis ἐ. τ. «kar ἰδίαν. These phrases have cer- tainly more point in Mk. as referring to
8 S3CZ add ουν, which W.H. place in margin.
a multitude from which they wished to escape.—ot ὄχλοι: no previous mention of the crowds, and no hint that Jesus wished to get away from them; looks like a digest of a fuller narrative, such as that in Mk.—weLq (or πεζοὶ), on foot, but not implying that all literally walked; there were sick among them who could not. The contrast is between going by sea and going by land. Cf. Acts xx. 13. Classical instances in philological com- mentaries (Wetstein, Kypke, Elsner, etc.).—Ver. 14. ἐξελθὼν, in this place, naturally means going forth from His re- treat, in Mk. (vi. 34) going out of the ship, the crowd having arrived on the spot before Him. To escape from the people always difficult, now apparently more than ever. Evidently a time of special excitement, popularity at its height, though according to Fourth Gos- pel about to undergo a speedy decline. ---ἐσπλαγχνίσθη, deponent passive, pitied; Hellenistic, and based on the Hebrew idea of the bowels as the seat of compassion; used by Symmachus in translation of Deut. xiii. Ο.---ἐθεράπευσε: Mark gives prominence to the element of instruction ; healing alone mentioned here.
Vv. 15-21. The feeding.—Ver. 15. ὀψίας yevopevns: might mean sunset as in viii. 16, but from the nature of the case must mean afternoon from 3 to 6, the first of the ‘two evenings ”.—€pnpos, comparatively uninhabited, no towns near.—7 apa ἤδη παρῆλθεν : the meaning not clear. Mk. has: ἤδη Spas πολλῆς = already the hour is advanced. Various suggestions have been made: eating time (Grot.), healing and teaching time (Fritzsche), daytime (Meyer) is past. Weiss, with most probability, takes dpa