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30. ΚΑΙ ἐκεῖθεν ἐξελθόντες παρεπορεύοντο] διὰ τὴς Γαλιλαίας -
καὶ οὐκ ἤθελεν ἵνα τις γνῷ.Σ
31. ἐδίδασκε γὰρ τοὺς μαθητὰς αὐτοῦ,
καὶ ἔλεγεν αὐτοῖς, ΄΄ Ὅτι ὁ vids τοῦ ἀνθρώπου παραδίδοται eis χεῖρας
ἀνθρώπων, καὶ ἀποκτενοῦσιν αὐτόν: καὶ ἀποκτανθείς, τῇ τρίτῃ
ἡμέρᾳ ὃ ἀναστήσεται.” αὐτὸν ἐπερωτῆσαι.
32. Οἱ δὲ ἠγνόουν τὸ ῥῆμα, καὶ ἐφοβοῦντο
33. Καὶ ἦλθεν εἰς Καπερναούμ" καὶ ἐν τῇ οἰκίᾳ γενόμενος, ἐπηρώτα αὐτούς, “Ti ἐν τῇ ὁδῷ πρὸς EauTods® διελογίζεσθε;
1 BD have επορενυοντο (W.H. text), παρεπ. in ΝΟΙ.Δ (Tisch.).
2 you in NBCDL.
4 So in CLA, ηλθον in $B (Tisch., W.H.).
remark: ‘The authorisation, however (for omitting καὶ νησ.), is not sufficient. But even if it were overwhelming, fast- ing would, tn its essence, be implied” (Morison on Mark). What Jesus said doubtless was: ‘‘ This kind can go out in ‘(on the ground of) nothing except prayer,” and His meaning that there was no hope of success except through a believing (of course faith is implied) appeal to the almighty power of God. It was a thought of the same kind as that in Mt. xix. 26 (Mk. x. 27): the impossible for man is possible for God. Of course in the view of Christ, prayer, faith (vide Mt. xvii. 20), both in healer and in healed, was needful in ail cases, but He recognised that there were certain aggravated types of disease (the present, one of them) in which the sense of dependence and trust was very specially required. In the case of the epileptic boy this had been lacking both in the father and in the disciples. Neither he nor they were hopeful of cure.
Vv. 30-32. Second announcement of the Passion (Mt. xvii. 22, 23, Lk. ix. 43-45).—Ver. 30. καὶ ἐκεῖθεν ἐξελθόντες, going forth from thence, {.6., from the scene of the last cure, wherever that was: it might be north or south of their des- tination (Capernaum)—Caesarea Philippi or Tabor.—waperopevovro, they passed along without tarrying anywhere. Some take the παρὰ in the compound verb to mean, went along by-ways, to avoid publicity: ‘‘diverticulo ibant, non via regia,’ Grotius. "ΤΕ is certainly true that Jesus had become so well known in Galilee that it would be difficult for Him on the thoroughfares to escape recogni- tion as He wished (οὐκ ἤθελεν ἵνα τις yvoi).—Ver. 31. ἐδίδασκε yap, etc. : gives the reason for this wish. It was
ὅ pera τρεις ηµερας in NBCDLA. 5 Omit προς εαν. ΝΒΟΡΙ..
the reason for the whole of the recert wandering outside Galilee: the desire to instruct the Twelve, and especially to prepare them for the approaching crisis. ---καὶ ἔλεγεν introduces the gist or main theme οἱ these instructions. The words following: ὅτι 6 vids, etc., are more than an announcement made in so many words once for all: they are rather the text of Christ’s whole talk with His disciples as they went along. He was so saying (ἔλεγεν, imperfect) all the time, in effect. —wapadiSorat, is betrayed, present; it is as good as done. The betrayal is the new feature in the second announcement. —Ver. 32. ἠγνόουν: they had heard the statement before, and had not forgotten the fact, and their Master had spoken too explicitly for them to be in any doubt as to His meaning. What they were ignorant of was the why, the δεῖ, With all He had said, Jesus had not yet been able to. make that plain. They will never know till the Passion has become a fact accomplished.—pjjpa, a solemn name for the utterance (vide Mt. iv. 4)= the oracular, prophetic, and withal weird, mysterious word of doom.—édo- βοῦντο, they feared to ask, they did not wish to understand, they would live on in hope that their Master was under a hallucination; true to human nature. Vv. 33-50. The Twelve at school (Mt. XViii. I-10, Lk. ix. 46-50, etc.).—Ver. 33. Καπερναούμ: home? ‘This statement, more than anything else in Mk., gives the impression that Capernaum was a kind of home for Jesus.—év τῇ οἰκίᾳ, in the house, opposed to ἐν rp 686, but pro- bably pointing to a particular house in which Jesus was wont to stay.—tt . . . διελογίζεσθε, what were ye discussing ? Jesus did not always walk beside His disciples (vide x. 32). He went before,