Mark 9:30-48

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Mark 9:33

Mark RECEIVING AND FORBIDDING AN UNANSWERED QUESTION Mar_9:33 . Was it not a strange time to squabble when they had just been told of His death? Note- I. The variations of feeling common to the disciples and to us all: one moment ‘exceeding sorrowful,’ the next fighting for precedence. II. Christ’s divine insight into His servants’ faults. This question was put because He knew what the wrangle had been about. The disputants did not answer, but He knew without an answer, as His immediately... read more

Alexander MacLaren

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Mark 9:34-42

Mark RECEIVING AND FORBIDDING Mar_9:33 - Mar_9:42 . Surely the disciples might have found something better to talk about on the road from Caesarea, where they had heard from Jesus of His sufferings, than this miserable wrangle about rank! Singularly enough, each announcement of the Cross seems to have provoked something of the sort. Probably they understood little of His meaning, but hazily thought that the crisis was at hand when He should establish the kingdom; and so their ambition,... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Mark 9:30-50

the Path to Greatness Mark 9:30-50 Such were the hopes awakened by the Transfiguration and the following miracles that the disciples were led to speculate upon their relative position in the Kingdom. Jesus therefore took a little child for His text, and preached to them a sermon on humility. How constantly the Master speaks of the little ones! He says that we must be converted to become like them; that to cause them to stumble will involve terrible penalties; that they are not to be... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Mark 9:1-50

Here we see four men who have passed without death into the atmosphere and society of the heavens. One only of the four is there by His own right. Pure and spotless humanity stands in the glory of the unsullied light, and holds familiar converse with the spirits of just men. We pass from the mountain to the valley. There we see Jesus, the baffled disciples, the father, the departing demon tearing his victim. The majesty and power of the Lord are manifested. Again He led these men through... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Mark 9:36-37

CHRIST IN THE CHILD‘And He took a child, and set him in the midst of them: and when He had taken him in His arms, He said unto them, Whosoever shall receive one of such children in My name, receiveth Me.’ Mark 9:36-Haggai : As Christ’s days on earth, so now, He comes to us under various forms—as babe, as youth, as man, as a spiritual presence. Consider to-day His coming as a child. Notice:— I. To receive a child in Christ’s name is to receive Christ.—He who receives a child, receives Christ... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Mark 9:41

‘WHOSE I AM’‘Ye belong to Christ.’ Mark 9:41 Who are they who belong to Christ? I. Those who come to Christ.—So the Saviour said: ‘All that the Father giveth Me shall come to Me’ ( John 6:37). You are invited to come just as you are. Are you young? ‘They enter the narrow way easiest who enter earliest.’ Nothing is more delightful than to see a girl sitting where Mary sat, at the feet of Jesus—or to see a boy leaning where John leaned, on the breast of Jesus. Are you middle-aged? Victor Hugo... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Mark 9:1-32

SECTION 3. Jesus’ Ministry Throughout Galilee and In The Surrounding Regions (4:35-9:32). After the initial opening up of the story of Jesus with its continual emphasis on His unique authority, Who He was and what He had come to do (Mark 4:1-3), and the series of parables which have indicated how the Kingly Rule of God was to expand (Mark 4:1-34), Mark now indicates how this expansion continued to occur through the ministry of Jesus in Galilee and the surrounding regions. At the same time he... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Mark 9:1-33

The Eyes of The Disciples Are Opened (8:22-9:33a). Following on Jesus’ concern at the lack of understanding of the disciples we now learn how their eyes are gradually opened to see at least something of the truth. The subsection commences with the healing of a blind man in two stages, a picture of what is happening to the disciples, and moves on to the disciples’ recognition that Jesus is the Messiah. The consequence of this is that Jesus then begins to emphasise that His way is to be a way of... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Mark 9:30-31

‘And they went out from there and passed through Galilee, and he would not that any man should know it. For he taught his disciples and said to them, “The Son of Man is delivered up into the hands of men, and they will kill him. And when he is killed after three days he will rise again.” ’ Jesus seems at last to have been successful in avoiding the crowds in Galilee. He took great precautions to ensure that He could teach His disciples undisturbed, probably by using lesser known routes. He knew... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Mark 9:30-32

The Third Prediction of His Death and Resurrection (9:30-32). This is basically the third prediction that Jesus makes about His coming death and resurrection, compare Mark 8:31; Mark 9:9; Mark 9:11. From this point on He will be going forward to His death. read more

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