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Robert Neighbour

Wells of Living Water Commentary - Mark 1:28-45

He Went About Doing Good Mark 1:28-45 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We want to talk to you about the changeableness of the people toward Christ. Mark 1:28 says, "And immediately His fame spread abroad throughout all the regions round about Galilee." 1. It should be remembered that Capernaum was amazed at His doctrine and miracles. Capernaum was? stirred from center to circumference. Nothing had ever been known in that city to be compared with the wonderful works of the Son of God. In one of the... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Mark 1:1-45

SECTION 1. The Establishment of His Ministry (1:1-3:35). This section commences with Jesus’ emergence from the wilderness as the Spirit anointed King and Servant (Isaiah 11:1-4; Isaiah 42:1-4; Isaiah 61:1-3) Who is God’s beloved Son (Mark 1:11), continues with His initial revelation of Himself as introducing the Kingly Rule of God (Mark 1:15), and as consequently doing mighty works in God’s Name, includes the idea of the formation of a group of disciples who are to extend His ministry (Mark... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Mark 1:14-39

The First Stage in the Ministry of Jesus. (1:14-39). Now that He had been especially empowered and had determined the path that He would tread Jesus leaves the wilderness behind and goes out among men in the power of the Spirit (Luke 4:14), after John’s imprisonment, to proclaim the good news from God in Galilee. His purpose was to proclaim that ‘the Kingly Rule of God is at hand’ (Mark 1:14-15), to begin the establishment of His band of Apostles with a view to spreading His word (Mark... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Mark 1:29-39

The Power of Jesus Is Revealed in Healing And A Further Casting Out Of Spirits, But He Emphasises That His Main Ministry Must Be That of Preaching in Their Synagogues (1:29-39). Having revealed His authority in His teaching and in the casting out of an unclean spirit with a word of command, Jesus carries out a healing ministry, commencing with Peter’s mother-in-law in Capernaum, and which also includes the casting out of unclean spirits who are ‘aware of Who He is’, although we do not learn... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Mark 1:35-39

Jesus Stresses the Wide Scope of What He Has Come To Do (1:35-39). The work in which He was engaged would be exhausting as He ministered to the crowds, especially spiritually, and so He was aware of the need to go aside and pray. So He rose very early and went to a lonely place, a desert place, away from the town. And there He prayed. He was well aware that His success was dependent on His relationship with His Father, and the confidence that was maintained by it. But the crowds came back to... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Mark 1:39

‘And he went into their synagogues throughout all Galilee, preaching and casting out devils.’ Note that Mark makes no mention of healing here. Jesus has come to establish the Kingly Rule of God and to defeat the Enemy, and this is what He goes about doing (compare Mark 6:7). And the whole of Galilee was made aware of why He was there and what His message was, and that by the Spirit He could cast out evil spirits. They learned that the days of the Enemy were numbered, for God was there. We... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Mark 1:35-39

Mark 1:35-Malachi : . The Decision to Leave Capernaum.— The concourse of sick embarrasses Jesus, either because the work of healing tended to obscure His message or because Capernaum threatened to monopolise His attention. Simon may have remembered how the Master left the house and went out of the city to pray. To Simon’ s surprise, Jesus does not seize the favourable opportunity of Capernaum. God’ s herald may not remain stationary. Everywhere the proclamation is accompanied by the expulsion... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Mark 1:36-39

Peter probably pitieth the multitude, because many amongst them needed Christ’s presence, for their bodily infirmities. Our Saviour knew their hearts better than Peter; and that which made them so much seek for him, was either in some a curiosity to see miracles wrought, or at best but a desire of some bodily benefit from him. Whereas his working of miracles was but a secondary work, subservient to his work in preaching, and done to confirm his doctrine, and to advantage them as to their faith... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Mark 1:35-39

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTESMark 1:35. A great while before day.—How Mark loves to emphasise the ceaseless activity and devotion of our Blessed Lord!MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.—Mark 1:35-39(PARALLELS: Matthew 8:16-17; Matthew 4:23-25; Luke 4:40-44.)The mutual relations of prayer and work.—Hitherto St. Mark has depicted in glowing colours the untiring activity of Him who “went about doing good” among men, instructing their ignorance, removing their woes, and infusing new hope into their... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Mark 1:1-45

Mark 1:0 The Cure of Simon's Wife's Mother. Pain, sickness, delirium, madness, as great infringements of the laws of nature as the miracles themselves, are such veritable presences to the human experience that what bears no relation to their existence cannot be the God of the human race. And the man who cannot find his God in the fog of suffering, no less than he who forgets his God in the sunshine of health, has learned little either of St. Paul or St. John. I. All suffering is against the... read more

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