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1Ο. εὐλογημένη ἡ ἐρχομένη βασι-
λεία ἐν ὀνόματι Κυρίου 1 τοῦ πατρὸς ἡμῶν Δαβίδ: Ὡσαννὰ ἐν τοῖς
ὑψίστοις.
ΙΙ. Καὶ εἰσῆλθεν εἰς ἹἹεροσόλυμα 6 ᾿Ιησοῦς, nai? eis
τὸ ἱερόν: καὶ περιβλεψάµενος πάντα, ὀψίας ὃ ἤδη οὔσης τῆς Spas,
ἐξῆλθεν cis Βηθανίαν μετὰ τῶν δώδεκα.
12. Kai τῇ ἐπαύριον ἐξελθόντων αὐτῶν ἀπὸ Βηθανίας, ἐπείνασε"
13. καὶ ἰδὼν συκῆν µακρόθεν,' ἔχουσαν φύλλα, ἦλθεν εἰ dpa εὑρήσει τι» ἐν αὐτῇ : καὶ ἐλθὼν ἐπ᾽ αὐτήν, οὔδὲν εὗρεν εἰ μὴ Φύλλα: οὗ 6
BY > 6 Uy γαρ ην καιρος " σύκων.
“"Μηκέτι ἐκ σοῦ eis τὸν αἰῶνα ὃ μηδεὶς καρπὸν payou.”
1 Omit this second εν ον. Κ. with NBCDLA.
14. καὶ ἀποκριθεὶς 6 ᾿ΙησοῦςἸ εἶπεν αὐτῇ,
Καὶ ἤκουον
? Omit ο |. και with NBCDLA.
*SCLA, Orig., have owe (Tisch., W.H., text, brackets), but BD and other
uncials have οψιας. B omits της ωρας.
* ato pak. in many uncials (NBD, εἰς.).
ὅτι ενρησει in SBCLA.
δο yap καιρος ουκ ην in SBCLA cop. syr.
Το |. omit S$BCDLA; also in ver. 15.
δεις τον arava before ex cov in SBCDLA.
bably people who had gone out from the city to meet the procession.—Ver. 11. εἰσῆλθεν, etc.: the procession now drops out of view and attention is fixed on the movements of Jesus. He enters Jerusalem, and especially the temple, and surveys all (περιβλεψάμενος πάντα) with keenly observant eye, on the out- look, like St. Paul at Athens, not for the picturesque, but for the moral and re- ligious element. He noted the traffic going on within the sacred precincts, though He postponed action till the morrow. Holtzmann (H. C.) thinks that the περιβλεψάμενος πάντα implies that Jesus was a stranger to Jerusalem. But, as Weiss remarks (in Meyer), Mk. can- not have meant to suggest that, even if Jesus had never visited Jerusalem since the beginning of the public ministry.
Vv. 12-14. The fig tree on the way (Mt. xxi. 18-19).—Ver. 12 tells how Jesus coming frori1 Bethany, where He had passed the night with the Twelve, felt hunger. This is surprising, con- sidering that He probably spent the night in the house of hospitable friends. Had the sights in the temple killed sleep and appetite, so that He left Bethany without taking any food ?—Ver. 13. εἰ apa, if in the circumstances; leaves there, creating expectation.—etpyoe: future indicative; subjunctive, more regular.— © γὰρ καιρὸς, etc., for it was not the season of figs. This in Mk. only. The
proper season was June for the first-ripe figs. -One may wonder, then, how Jesus could have any expectations. But had He? Victor Ant. and Euthy. viewed the hunger as feigned. It is more reason- able to suppose that the hope of finding figs on the tree was, if not feigned, at least extremely faint. He might have a shrewd guess how the fact was, and yet go up to the tree as one who had a right to expect figs where there was a rich foliage, with intent to utilise it for a par- able, if He could not find fruit on it. In those last days the prophetic mood was on Jesusin a high degree, and His action would be only very partially understood by the Twelve.—Ver.14. Φάγοι: the op- tative of wishing with μὴ (µηκέτι), as in classic Greek (Burton, M. T., § 476). The optative is comparatively rare in the N. Τ.--ἤκουον : the disciples heard (what He said); they were not inob- servant. His manner would arrest atten- tion. The remark prepares for what is reported in νετ. 20; hence the imperfect.
Vv. 15-19. Cleansing of the temple (Mt. xxi. 12-17, Lk. xix. 45-48). The state of things Jesus saw in the temple yesterday has been in His mind ever since: through the night watches in Bethany; in the morning, killing appetite ; on the way, the key to His enigmatical behaviour towards the fig tree.—Ver. 15. εἰς τὸ ἱερόν, into the temple, that is, the forecourt, the court of the Gentiles, — τοὺς π. καὶ τοὺς a., the sellers and the