42 And ſtraightway the damfſel aroſe, and walked, for ſhe v/as of the age of twelve years : and they were aſtoniſhed with a great aſtoniſhment.
43 And hecharged them ſtraightly, that no man hould know it : and commanded that ſomething ſhould be given her to eat.
There is nothing in this Hiſtory needeth further Notes for Explication, than what we gave in the Notes on Mat. 9. to alich 1 here referr the Reader, There 1s nothing more unac- countable in all the Paſſages of our Saviour's Life, recorded by the Evangeliſts, than the Charges that he gave to ſeveral Perſons healed by him, That nd Man ſhould know it : Eſpecially if we conſider, 7: That he did not charge All fo : He bid the Perſon potſeiled with the Devil, ver.. '29. of this Chapter, go home to his Frionds, and tell them how great things the Lord had done for him. >. That he could not expedt to be concealed, had they yielded ghedience 3 for his Miracles were done openly, and it was not like that all would keep filence; nay, he commanded the Leper to 9 and ſhew himſelf to the Prieſts. 3. Few of thoſe thus charged, &:d keep filence. Nor do we ever find that Chriſt retle&ted Eame on them, trom which yet we cannot acquit them. But we muſt not think to underſtand the Reaſons of all Chriſt's ations and Speeches 3 he had doubtleſs wife Ends in doing it, though we do not underftand them,
CHAP. YL
Chrift preaching in his own Countrey , is contemned, and ſheweth hw they diſhonour a Prophet of their own, 1—5. Sendeth out his Apoſtles with Power over Unclean Spirits, 7—13. The Opinicn of Herad, and others, concerning Chriſt , 14—15, The Reaſen why John was Beheaded, 17 —28. His Diſciples bury him, 2c. Toe Apoſtles return, and give an Account to Chrift of what they had done and tangit , 3933. Feſus pitying the Multittcz, teacheth, and feedeth them miraculouſly, 34—44. Walteth 1 the Sex tn his Dijciples, and conforteth them, 45—52., Coming 1) Genneſarzt, healeti 41 that touched him, s3—g<.
| MX NDhe went out from thence, and came into {A his owncountrey, and his diſciples follow him:
St. M AR K.
| thirty years of age, and it is not provanle tuat ne lived ai! theſe years 1n [dlenefs. | The Son of Mary, the Brother of Fumos aro Foſes, and Fada, and Simm,) That is, the Kinſhnin 15 moſt in
terpret 1t,) ſuppofing Mary the Mother of our Lord had nc more Children, I ſhall not determine it. They fay, ther four were the Children of Mary, Sifter to the Mother of __
Lord, nnd the Wife of Cl25þas, chap, Is. 429. N- 100 Py BY We read of Fames, Fiſes and Sale, as the Children of th:
Mary ; but of Fuda and Simon, we read not. | Ant they wors offended at him : That is, Although they heard fuch thins: from him, and ſaw ſuch mighty Works done 1y him, as they could not but think required a Divine intluence and Pox;- er 3 yet becauſe by their Reaſon they cou'd not compre
hend, how One who had almoſt thirty years lived as 2 Hoch a. nick amongſt them, ſhould come by any ſuch A cquaintance: with, or Extraordinary Influence from God , their Patſjon quickly went over; and though they were more modeſt, than with their corrupt Teachers, to ſi, he did this by the Devi/ . yet neither would they receive him, and believe him, but lizht- ed and deſpiſed him ; as if God's Influence had been tied to their Schools of the Prophets.
own kin, and in hisown houſe.
_ he laid his hands upon afew ſick foik, and healed 15- 25. EPem. >
he went round about the villages, teaching. Sata,
Experience tells us, that Familiarity breedeth a Contempt. Aur Lic 13. Saviour (though there was a deeper Cauſe) aftigneth this a3 the
cauſe why thoſe of XN.t.24:th paid him vo greater Reſpect, Un- belief in us, bindeth the Hands of God : | He cwld thers do no
mghty Works, &c.)} Hecould nit; not from a defeft of Power.
but the Exerciſe of Divine Power is always regulated by Wit-
dom ; and in conſiftence with his Wiſdom, he could do n:
mighty Works there : For the End of our Saviour's Miracles
being either to Convert Unbclicvcrs to the Faith of the Gotpel,
w to Confirm Weak Believers in it, he foreſaw, that the per- :zorming ot Miracles there, wouid be without any Saving Ei-
fe, and ſuſpended his Miraculous Power. Beſides, he was
Iighly provoked by their obſtinate Infidelity, and would noc
work great Wonders amonegſt them ; only he curerh a few fich Perſons, (And he marvelled ot their Unbelief. | Kis Divine Dottrine was ſo convincing, and the Fame of his Gloriou:
Works done in places near them was ſo univerſ2] and cr:dib!-,
that there was juſt cauſe of his rational Wonder, that they did
not Believe, Though our Saviour left: them in their [n#delir7,
he did not his Blefſed Work, Cening round about the V*!'1gc- teaching. ] Still Preaching appeareth to have been our Saviour 5
great Work, how Iizhta thing foever ſome make ci it. I can
not but obſerve, how littl: Reaſon Men have to glory in, cr to
truſt to any External Privi'cdg:53 how little other Aids 2nd Aff ſtances, without the ſpecia! Intlu-nces of Divine Grace, i12nif: to the begetting of Faith in Unbelicving Souls, and removing their Prejudices againſt the Vottrine of the Goſrel, Chrifts 9:1 Country isas bad as any othet.
2 And when the ſabbath-day was come; he began | tn teach in the ynagogue: and many hearing h1m, |
|... were aſtoniſhed, ſaying, ® From whence hath this man | ' theſethings? and what wiſdom # this which 1s
viven anto him, that even ſuch mighty works are ; wrought by his hands ?
3 Is not'this the carpenter, the ſon of Mary, the | 3
brother of James and Toſes, and of Juda, and Simon ? and are not his ſiſters here with us ? And they were offended at him.