ποιῇς; 29. Ὁ δὲ “Ingots ἀποκριθεὶς 1 εἶπεν αὐτοῖς, “΄Ἐπερωτήσω ὑμᾶς κἀγὼ ” ἕνα λόγον, καὶ ἀποκρίθητέ por, καὶ ἐρῶ ὑμῖν ἐν ποίᾳ ἐξουσίᾳ ταῦτα mod. 30. Τὸ βάπτισμα Ἰωάννου ἓ ἐξ οὐρανοῦ ἦν, ἢ ἐξ ἀνθρώπων; ἀποκρίθητέ μοι. 31. Καὶ ἐλογίζοντο” πρὸς έαυ- τούς, λέγοντες, “Edy εἴπωμεν, “Ef οὐρανοῦ, ἐρεῖ, Atari οὖν οὐκ ἐπιστεύσατε αὐτῷ; 32. GAN ἐὰν ὅ εἴπωμεν, "EE ἀνθρώπων, ἐφο- βοῦντο τὸν λαόν, ἅπαντες γὰρ εἶχον τὸν Ἰωάννην, ὅτι ὄντως Ἰ προφήτης ἦν. 33. καὶ ἀποκριθέντε λέγουσι τῷ ᾿Ιησοῦ,δ “ Odx οἴδαμεν” Καὶ ὁ ᾽Ιησοῦς ἀποκριθεὶς ὃ λέγει αὐτοῖς, “Odd ἐγὼ λέγω ὑμῖν ἐν ποίᾳ ἐξουσίᾳ ταῦτα mod.”
XII. 1. ΚΑΙ ἤρέατο αὐτοῖς ἐν παραβολαϊῖς λέγειν,1Ό ““᾽Αμπελῶνα ἐφύτευσεν ἄνθρωπος, καὶ περιέθηκε φραγµόν, καὶ ὥρυξεν ὑπολήνιον, καὶ ᾠκοδόμησε πύργον, καὶ ἐξέδοτο 11 αὐτὸν γεωργοῖς, καὶ ἀπεδήμησε. 2. καὶ ἀπέστειλε πρὸς τοὺς γεωργοὺς τῷ καιρῷ δοῦλον, ἵνα παρὰ
1 καγω (from parall.) omitted in BCLA.
Στο before |. in $BCDLA 33. * Omit εαν SABCLA. Vide below. 7 οντως οτι in BCL.
5 Omit αποκριθεις SEBCLA 33.
4 διελογιζοντο in BCDLA.
δοχλον in NBC (W.H.). 8 tw |. λεγουσι in RBCLA 33. 10 λαλειν in BLA.
1 εξεδετο in S$ABCL, changed into the more correct εξεδοτο (T.R.).
to convey the idea that Jesus was giving no fresh cause of offence, simply walking about (Weiss).—Ver. 28. va ταῦτα ποιῇς: ἵνα with subjunctive after ἐξουσίαν instead of infinitive found in ii. το, iii. 15.—Ver: 29. The grammatical structure of this sentence, compared with that in Mt. xxi. 24, is crude—xai ἀποκρίθητέ pot instead of ὃν ἐὰν εἴπητέ pot. It is colloquial grammar, the easy-going grammar of popular con- versation.—éva λόγον, vide at Mt. xxi. 24.—Ver: 30. ἀποκρίθητέ pot, answer me; spoken in the confident tone of one who knows they cannot and will not try. —WVv. 31-32 give their inward thoughts as divined by Jesus. Their spoken answer was a simple οὐκ οἴδαμεν (ver. 33).—Ver. 32. ἀλλὰ εἴπωμεν, ἐξ ἀνθρώ- πων: = but suppose we say, from men ? ---ἐφοβοῦντο τὸν ὄχλον. Here Mk. thinks for them instead of letting them think for themselves as in Mt. (ver. 26, φοβούμεθα) -- —they were afraid of the multitude.—a@wavres yap, etc.: here again the construction is somewhat crude—'lwavvny by attraction, object of the verb εἶχον instead of the subject of ἦν, and ὄντως by trajection separated from the verb it qualifies, ἦν, giving this sense: for all held John truly that he
was a prophet = for all held that John was indeed a prophet. .
CHAPTER XII. A PARABLE AND Sunpry CaprTious QuESTIONS.—Vv. 1-12. Parable of the wicked vinedressers (Mt. xxi. 33-46, Lk. xx. 9-19).—Ver. 1. ἐν παραβολαῖς: the plural may be used simply because there are more parables than one even in Mk., the main one and that of the Rejected Stone (vv. 10, 11), but it is more probably generic = in parabolic style (Meyer, Schanz, Holtz., H. C.). Jesus resumed (ἤρξατο) this style because the circumstances called forth the parabolic mood, that of one “whose heart is chilled, and whose spirit is saddened by a sense of loneli- ness, and who, retiring within himself, by a process of reflection, frames for his thoughts forms which half conceal, half reveal them ”—The Parabolic Teaching of Christ, p. 20.---ἀμπελῶνα: a vineyard, the theme suitably named Πτςί.---ἄἅμπελος is the usual word in Greek authors, but Kypke cites some instances of ἀμπελὼν in late authors.—tmoAyviov (here only), the under vat of a wine press, into which the juices trampled out in the ληνὸς flowed.—eééSero (W.H.), a defective form, as if from δίδω. Cf. ἀπέδετο, Heb. xii, 16.—Ver. 2. τῷ καιρῷ: at
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