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G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Mark 14:1-72

Mary, conscious of the sorrow of death which was in her Lord's soul, poured out the rarest gift she possessed, and so anointed Him beforehand for His burial. Her name is forever redolent of pure devotion. Two sets of arrangements are here chronicled, those of Judas an3 Jesus, yet both converging to the same end under the sovereign will and power of Jehovah. Jesus gathered round Him those who were, according to His own teaching, most nearly related to Him (see 3:34,35), and so grafted the new... read more

Robert Neighbour

Wells of Living Water Commentary - Mark 14:29-72

Peter's Wanderings Mark 14:29-72 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Peter will ever be recognized as one of the outstanding disciples of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. This does not mean, however, that Peter knew no frailties of the flesh. We like to group the various disciples and followers of Christ into six divisions. 1. There were the five hundred to whom Jesus appeared at one time. This is the largest number mentioned as followers of Christ prior to Pentecost. We would call these the saved. There... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Mark 14:62

‘The Blessed.’ An indirect reference to God. ‘And Jesus said, “I am. And you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of power and coming in the clouds of heaven.” In Mark His ‘I am’ is a direct Messianic claim, and more. Matthew 26:64 and Luke 22:70 make the reply more indirect as do some important authorities here - ‘you say that I am’. But it is the expression that is different. The essence is the same. Jesus did not deny His Messiahship by either answer. Mark simply translates... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Mark 14:53-65

Mark 14:53-Jude : . The Trial before the Sanhedrin.— This trial is irregular in many ways. It was unlawful to hold such a trial at night. It is not, therefore, unhistorical (Montefiore, i. 345f.). Mk. speaks of the whole Sanhedrin meeting and of all condemning Jesus ( Mark 14:55; Mark 14:64). This is his customary popular exaggeration, prompted here by desire to throw the guilt on all the religious leaders of Judaism ( cf. Mark 15:1). The trial is really a preliminary investigation— a search... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Mark 14:53-65

This history of our Saviour’s examination before the high priest we had in Matthew 26:57-68; See Poole on "Matthew 26:57", and following verses to Matthew 26:68. It should seem the high priests and council were very eager upon this thing. This council seems to have sat up all night, for early in the morning they carried him (condemned by them) to Pilate, and before twelve they brought him out of the city to be crucified. These wretched hypocrites had but the evening before been taking the... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Mark 14:53-72

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTESMark 14:53. With him were assembled.—There come with him, or There come together unto him.Mark 14:54. The palace.—The court of the palace. At the fire.—Beside the light of the fire.Mark 14:58. Within three days.—After three days: διά. For similar construction see Mark 2:1; Acts 24:17; Galatians 2:1.Mark 14:72. When he thought thereon.—A good rendering, if ἐπιβαλών means having cast his mind over the matter. But, as this verb is used not many verses back (Mark 14:46)... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Mark 14:1-72

After two days was the feast of the passover ( Mark 14:1 ),Now, we have followed and traced Jesus in Mark's gospel through Sunday, His triumphant entry. Monday, when He came back to the temple and cleansed it. And Tuesday, when He came back again and fielded these questions, and where the disciples showed Him the building and He said, "Not one stone is going to be left standing up on the other," back to the Mount of Olives Tuesday evening with His disciples, as He sits down there and makes... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Mark 14:1-72

Mark 14:1-2 . After two days was the passover, when the chief priests and the scribes sought to form their plan, how they might surprise the Saviour and put him to death. Their scheme to do it after the passover was sacrificed, and the people returned to the country, was very prudent, in order to prevent an insurrection. But how then would the scriptures have been fulfilled, in regard of the sprinkling of the Lamb’s blood for our redemption from sin, and the tyranny of Satan. Mark 14:3 . ... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Mark 14:61-62

Mark 14:61-62But He held His peace.Eloquent silenceThere is a silence which is often more eloquent than speech, means more than any words, and speaks ten times more powerfully to the heart. Such, for example, is the silence when the heart is too full for utterance, and the organs of speech are choked by the whelming tide of emotion. The sight of a great man so shaken, and quivering with feeling, that the tongue can give no voice to what the heart feels, is of all human rhetoric the most potent.... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Mark 14:62-65

Mark 14:62-65And ye shall see the lion of Man.The value of Christ’s oath before PilateI propose to inquire what the value of this oath is; what value we ought to attach to it as evidence that Jesus was the Messiah; and I suppose that this is to be determined on the same basis and grounds on which we determine the value of evidence in other cases. How is that?1. By those extraneous circumstances which are corroborative or otherwise, of that which is testified to.(1) Jesus was the only being who... read more

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