Vv. 28-33. Peter-episode, peculiar to Mt. The story is true to the character
34---36.
κ 2 a τὸν ᾿Ιησοῦν.
30. βλέπων δὲ τὸν ἄνεμον ἰσχυρὸν } ἐφοβήθη ’ καὶ
ἀρέάμενος Ἱκαταποντίζεσθαι ἔκραξε, λέγων, “Κύριε, σῶσόν pe.” 8 Ch. xviii
31. Εὐθέως δὲ ὁ ᾿Ιησοῦς ἐκτείνας τὴν χεῖρα ἐπελάβετο αὐτοῦ, καὶ λέγει αὐτῷ, “' Ὀλιγόπιστε, εἰς τί * ἐδίστασας;
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αὐτῶν εἰς τὸ πλοῖον, " ἐκόπασεν 6
ἐλθόντες ὃ προσεκύνησαν αὐτῷ λέγοντες, ''᾽Αληθῶς Θεοῦ vids ef.” 34. Καὶ διαπεράσαντες ἦλθον εἰς τὴν γῆν * Γεννησαρέτ.
6 only.
2. Kat ἐμβάντων 2 t Ch. xxviii. 3 μβ 17 only.
ἄνεμος: 33. οἱ δὲ ἐν τῷ πλοίῳ u Mk. iv. 39;
vi. 51.
35. καὶ
ἐπιγνόντες αὐτὸν οἱ ἄνδρες τοῦ τόπου ἐκείνου ἀπέστειλαν εἰς ὅλην ν Lk. vii. 3
τὴν περίχωρον ἐκείνην, καὶ προσήνεγκαν αὐτῷ πάντας τοὺς κακῶς 24; xxvii.
έχοντας "
κρασπέδου τοῦ ἱματίου αὐτοῦ" καὶ ὅσοι ἤψαντο, ᾿ διεσώθησαν.
1 Omitted in NB 33.
36. καὶ παρεκάλουν αὐτόν, ἵνα µόνον ἄψωνται τοῦ
2 αᾳναβαντων in SBD 33.
43) 44; XXViil. I, 4. 1 Pet. iit. 20.
5 Wanting in NB.
* SBD al. have επι instead of εις and omit την γην.
of Peter.—Ver. 30. seeing the wind, that is, the effects of it. It is one thing to see a storm from the deck of a stout ship, another to see it in midst of the ν΄ανες.- -καταποντίζεσθαι : he walked at first, now he begins to sink; so at the final crisis, so at Antioch (Gal. ii. 11), so probably allthrough. A strange mixture of strength and weakness, bravery and cowardice ; a man of generous im- pulses rather than of constant firm will. “Peter walked on the water but feared the wind: such is human nature, often achieving great things, and at fault in little things.” — (woAAdnus τὰ peyada κατορθοῦσα, ἐν τοῖς ἐλάττοσι ἐλέγχεται, Chrys., H. 1.)—Ver. 31. ἐδίστασας: again in xxvili. 17, nowhere else in N. T., from δίς, double, hence to be of two minds, to doubt (cf. δίψυχος, James i. 8). —Ver.32. ἀναβάντων αὐτῶν: Jesus and Peter.—é€xétragev: used in narrative of first sea-anecdote by Mk., iv. 39 = ex- hausted itself (from kémwos).—Ver. 33. ot ἐν τῷ πλοίῳ: cf. ot ἄνθρωποι in viii. 27; presumably the disciples alone referred το.---ἀληθῶς 6. v. et, a great advance on ποταπός (viii. 27). The question it im- plies now settled: Son of God.
Vv. 34-36. Safe arrival.—8vawepa- σαντες, having covered the distance between the place where Jesus joined them and the shore.—émt τὴν γῆν: they got to land; the general fact important after the storm.—els Γεννησαρέτ, more definite indication of locality, yet not very definite; a district, not a town, the rich plain of Gennesaret, four miles long and two broad.—Ver. 35. καὶ ἐπιγνόν- τες, etc.: again popular excitement with its usual concomitants. The men of the
βλέπων τὸν ἄνεμον,
place, when they recognised who had landed from the boat, sent round the word: Jesus has come! They bring their sick to Him to be healed.—Ver. 36. παρεκάλουν, etc.: they have now un- bounded confidence in Christ’s curative powers ; think it enough to touch (µόνον ἄψωνται) the hem of His mantle.—dieoo- θησαν: they are not disappointed; the touch brings a complete cure (διὰ in com- position). The expression, ὅσοι ἤψαντο, implies that all who were cured touched : that was the uniform means. Mk.’s expression, ὅσοι ἂν ἤ., leaves that open.
CHAPTER XV. WASHING OF HANpDs; SYROPHGNICIAN WOMAN; SECOND FEED- ING. The scene changes with dramatic effect from phenomenal popularity on the eastern shore, and in Gennesaret, to embittered, ominous conflict with the jealous guardians of Jewish orthodoxy and orthopraxy. The relations between Jesus and the religious virtuosi are be- coming more and more strained and the crisis cannot be far off. That becomes clear to Jesus now, if it was not before (xvi. 21).
Vv. 1-20. Washing of hands (Mk. vii. I-23).—Ver. 1. τότε connects naturally with immediately preceding narrative concerning the people of Gennesaret with unbounded faith in Jesus seeking healing by mere touch of His garment. Probably the one scene led to the other: growing popular enthusiasm deepening Pharisaic Ἡοε]έγ.-- προσέρχονται (ot) &. Ἱ. If of be omitted, the sense is that certain persons came to Jesus from Jeru- salem. If it be retained, the sense is: certain persons belonging to Jerusalem came from it, the preposition ἐν being