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KATA MAPKON il.
ἁμαρτίαι, ἢ εἰπεῖν, Ἔγειραι.ὶ Kat? ἄρόν σου τὸν xpdBBatov,® κα περιπάτει; 10. ἵνα δὲ εἰδῆτε, ὅτι ἐξουσίαν ἔχει ὁ vids τοῦ ἀνθρώποε ἀφιέναι ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς 4 ἁμαρτίας, (λέγει τῷ παραλυτικῷ;) 11. Σοὶ λέγω, ” 5 ΔΝ 6 ἆ a ά , aa ἆ > a a , ” ἔγειραι,ὸ καὶ ὃ ἄρον τὸν κράββατόν σου, καὶ ὕπαγε εἰς τὸν οἶκόν σου.
12. Καὶ ἠγέρθη εὐθέως, kal” ἄρας τὸν κράββατον, ἐξῆλθεν ἐναντίον ἓ πάντων: ὥστε ἐξίστασθαι πάντας, καὶ δοξάζειν τὸν Θεόν, λέγοντας,"
«Ὅτι οὐδέποτε οὕτως 10 εἴδομεν.” 13. Καὶ ἐξῆλθε πάλιν παρὰ τὴν θάλασσαν: καὶ mwas ὁ ὄχλος
ἤρχετο πρὸς αὐτόν, καὶ ἐδίδασκεν αὐτούς.
14. Καὶ παράγων εἶδε
Λευϊν τὸν τοῦ ᾽Αλϕαίου, καθήµενον ἐπὶ τὸ τελώνιον, καὶ λέγει αὐτῷ,
««᾿Ακολούθει μοι.”
1 εγειρε in ΝΟ Τ al, (Tisch.).
Καὶ ἀναστὰς ἠκολούθησεν αὐτῷ.
15. Καὶ ἐγέ-
εγειρον in BL (W.H.).
2 kat in ΒΔ (Tisch.), omit CDL (W.H. in brackets).
3 τον κραβ. σου in NBCDLE.
4 emt της γῆς αφιεναι in NCDLAZ (Tisch.), αφ. apap. επι τ. γ. in B (W.H. text;
5 εγειρε in most uncials. 7 και ευθυς in BCL.
5 B omits (W.H. in brackets). D has και Aeyew.
there. For no doubt the scribes were as much astonished as their neighbours at what took place. But they would not join in the praise to God which followed. —otras οὐδέποτε εἴδομεν: elliptical, but expressive, suited to the mental mood = so we never saw, 7.¢., we never saw the like.
N.B.—The title “‘ Son of Man” occurs in this narrative for the first time in Mk.’s Gospel; vide on Mt. viii. 20, ix. 6.
Vy. 13-17. Call of Levi, feast follow- ing (Mt. ix. 9-13; Lk. v. 27-32). This incident is not to be conceived as follow- ing immediately after that narrated in the foregoing section.—Ver. 13 interrupts the continuity of the history. It states that Jesus went out again (cf. i. 16) alongside (παρὰ) the sea, that the multi- tude followed Him, and that He taught them. A very vague general notice, serving little other purpose than to place an interval between the foregoing and following incidents.—Ver. 14. Aeviv. Levi, the son of Alphaeus, the name here and in Lk. different from that given in first gospel, but the incident mani- festly the same, and the man therefore also; Levi his original name, Matthew his apostle name. Mk. names Matthew in his apostle list (iii. 18), but he fails to identify the two, though what he states about Levi evidently points to a call to apostleship similar to that to the four fishermen (i. 16, 20). The compiler of
§ και omit SBBCDL. 8 εµπροσθεν in NBL. 10 outws ουδεποτε NBDL.
the first Gospel, having Mk. before him, and, noticing the omission, substituted the name Matthew for Levi, adding to it λεγόμενον (ix. 9) to hint that he had another name.—a«odovOer por: a call to apostleship (in terms identical in all three Synoptics), and also fo immediate service in connection with the mission to the publicans (vide on Mt.).—Ver. 15. ἐν τῇ οἰκίᾳ attov: whose house? Not perfectly clear, but all things point to that of Levi. There is no mention of a return to Capernaum, where Jesus dwelt. The custom house may have been out- side the town, nearer the shore. Then if the house of Jesus (Peter’s) had been meant, the name of Jesus should have stood after οἰκία instead of at the close of the verse. The main point to note is that whatever house is meant, it must have been large enough to have a hall or court capable of accommodating a large number of people. Furrer assumes as a matter of course that the gathering was in the court. ‘“ Here in the court of one of these ruined houses sat the Saviour of the lost in the midst of publicans and sinners” (Wanderungen, p. 375).— πολλοὶ, etc.: many to be taken in earnest, not slurred over, as we are apt to do when we think of this feast as a private entertainment given by Mt. to his quondam friends, Jesus being nothing more than a guest.—jjoav yap πολλοὶ καὶ ἠκολούθουν αὐτῷ: Mk. here takes