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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Mark 6:6-56

The Wider Ministry begins - the Apostles Are Sent Out - Opposition Continues (6:6a-56). Having established that Jesus is Lord of the elements, Lord over evil spirits and Lord over life and death, Mark now deals with the widening of His ministry, although again this does not take place without disappointments and opposition as before. Jesus sends His disciples out to preach with great success, although ever in the background is the shadow of Herod Antipas who was responsible for the death of... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Mark 6:14-29

The Response of King Herod In View Of His Previous Execution of John the Baptiser (6:14-29). Meanwhile it was inevitable that news of the activities and power of Jesus, and of His disciples, would reach Herod’s palace through his spy system, and when it did his conscience struck him, for he had had John the Baptiser executed, and hearing about the miracles, he thought that this must be John come back to life, and was greatly troubled. This section is inserted here for a number of reasons. 'b7... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Mark 6:24-26

‘And she went out and said to her mother, “What shall I ask?” And she said, “the head of John the Baptiser”. And she came in immediately and hastily to the king, and asked saying, “I will that you forthwith give me on a plate the head of John the Baptiser.” And the king was deeply sorry, but for the sake of his oath and of those who sat at meat, he would not reject her.’ But what was she to ask for? The decision made was that it should be ‘The head of John the Baptiser.’ The idea was not hers... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Mark 6:14-29

Mark 6:14-Joel : . Herod and Jesus. The End of John the Baptist.— Wellhausen, J. Weiss, and Klostermann would begin a new period with this section— the period of constant wandering, in which Jesus is mostly outside Galilee, e.g. in the districts of Tyre and Sidon ( Mark 7:24), Decapolis ( Mark 7:31), Bethsaida ( Mark 8:22), Cæ sarea Philippi ( Mark 8:27). The restless journeying across the lake, and the avoidance of Galilee, would be explained by the fact that the suspicions of Herod have... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Mark 6:14-29

We meet with this history in Matthew 14:1-12, to which I refer the reader, having there taken in the most considerable things in the relation of the same thing by Matthew or Mark. Mark calleth him Herod the king, whom Mark and Luke called tetrarch. Herod was tetrarch of Galilee, but under that title he exercised a regal power within his province. The whole history teacheth us several things. 1. The notion of a faithful minister. He is one that dares to fell the greatest persons of what they do... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Mark 6:14-29

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTESMark 6:19. Had a quarrel.—Fostered a grudge. Her inward enmity only waited for an opportunity to break forth in open hostilities.Mark 6:20. Observed.—Or preserved, i.e. guarded him. Did many things.—א, B, L, and Coptic read, he was much perplexed, which, however, hardly seems to harmonise with the next words,and heard Him gladly.Mark 6:21.—Mark alone mentions the three classes of guests: (1) Herod’s political magnates; (2) the military dignitaries—“chiliarchs,” i.e.... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Mark 6:1-56

Shall we turn to Mark's gospel, chapter 6.Jesus had been in the city of Capernaum there on the northern part of the Sea of Galilee. And He has just brought back to life the daughter of Jairus, one of the rulers of the synagogue there in Capernaum. Now He is leaving Capernaum and with His disciples He is returning back to His hometown of Nazareth. It's probably thirty to thirty-five, well maybe forty miles from Capernaum to Nazareth.And he went from thence ( Mark 6:1 ),The thence would be... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Mark 6:1-56

Mark 6:3 . Is not this the carpenter? The jews were bound to teach their children some trade, as no man could say what the vicissitudes of life might be. Hence Lightfoot cites the following passage from the Talmud. “It is incumbent on a father to circumcise his son, to redeem him, (by the half shekel) to teach him the law, and instruct him in some occupation.” Again: “Whosoever teacheth not his son a trade, teacheth him in fact to rob.” Mark 6:4 . A prophet is not without honour, but in... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Mark 6:14-29

Mark 6:14-29And king Herod heard of Him; (for His name was spread abroad:) and he said, That John the Baptist was risen from the dead.The sovereign power of conscienceI. Now we are to begin with simply considering Herod as acted on by conscience: for it is evident that nothing but the workings of a mind ill at ease would have led him to conjecture that Jesus was the Baptist. Conscience was continually plying Herod with the truth, that a record had been made of his crime by a Being who would not... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Mark 6:24

24 And she went forth, and said unto her mother, What shall I ask? And she said, The head of John the Baptist. Ver. 24. And she went forth ] The men and women dined not together. In Barbary, ‘tis death for any man to see one of the Zeriff’s concubines. read more