Mark 1:14-18

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Mark 1:16-20

Mark 1:16-Proverbs : . The Call of the First Disciples.— The sudden call and unhesitating response argue, according to Porphyry ( c. A.D. 300), either the incompetence of the lying historian or the stupidity of the disciples. But Mk. does not imply that this was the first these men had seen or heard of Jesus ( cf. John 13:5-Zechariah : *). He does, however, suggest the attractive power of Jesus, which he regarded as supernatural. At a word men left all to be with Him. It must have seemed... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Mark 1:14-15

It should seem that John had but a short time wherein he exercised his public ministry: he was the son of a priest, Zacharias, Luke 1:13, and it is probable that he entered not upon his public ministry till he was thirty years of age (it was the priestly age, and the age at which Luke tells us our Saviour entered upon his public ministry). He was but about six months older than our Saviour, and was imprisoned as soon as our Saviour entered upon his ministry, indeed before we read of his... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Mark 1:16-20

We heard of the call of these four apostles before, in Matthew. See Poole on "Matthew 4:18", and following verses to Matthew 4:22, upon which may be found whatsoever is necessary for the explication of these verses, (having nothing new in them), as also the reconciling of what John saith, John 1:40, about the calling of Andrew and Simon, to what these two evangelists say about it. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Mark 1:14-20

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTESMark 1:14. John was put in prison.—Delivered up. Same word used of our Lord’s betrayal by Judas. “Such honour have all His saints.” Jesus came into Galilee.—From Jerusalem, where He had been teaching most of the time since His baptism (John 2:13 to John 4:3).Mark 1:15. Repent ye, and believe.—We have an echo of this Divine keynote in the first sermon preached by Peter at Pentecost (Acts 2:38).Mark 1:16. As He walked.—As He was passing along by the seashore towards... 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

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Mark 1:9-15

Mark 1:9-15 I. John's dispensation was thus shown to be of Divine appointment. Notice the beauty of John's work in relation both to the past and to the future. It was a baptism unto repentance a baptism, and so connected with the ceremonial past; a baptism unto repentance, and so introductory to a new and more intensely spiritual state of things. II. But why should Jesus Christ identify Himself with a baptism which was unto repentance? His identification with that baptism was not for the... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Mark 1:14

Mark 1:14 Two things appear on the surface in the Psalmists' interpretation of the idea of the kingdom of God. I. One is its moral purpose. The kingdom of God is indeed exhibited in the Psalms in all its magnificence; in all its breadth; over nature and man; over the stars of the sky, and the cattle upon a thousand hills; over the storms of the desert and the waterfloods; over the march of history and the destinies of nations, and the secrets of the heart of man; over all that vast,... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Mark 1:14-15

Mark 1:14-15 Repentance and Faith. I. Consider the insufficiency of repentance by itself to procure the forgiveness of sin. Turn to analogy; turn to experience; turn to reason, and you may equally prove the fallacy of the opinion, which would establish a necessary connection between repentance and forgiveness. So long as there is any notion of the virtue of repentance its virtue as a necessary procuring of pardon and acceptance there must be a suspicion that the atonement is not called for, and... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Mark 1:16-34

Mark 1:16-34 I. Vers. 16-20. (1) Christ is the Preparer of His servants. "I will make you" how much was involved in that promise. ( a ) Authority; ( b ) Qualification. (2) Small beginnings compatible with sublime results. (3) The claims of God override all other claims the sons left their father. (4) The discharge of common duties the best preparation for higher calls. (5) The place of the servant is after the master "Come ye after Me;" they are not invited to equal terms, they must walk in... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Mark 1:17

Mark 1:17 Christ's Election of Disciples. Christ chose as His messengers the unlearned and poor, and the outcast of the theologians, and the uninterested in politics, and the men and women of whom society knew nothing; the fisherman and the publican, the Pharisee who left the priestly ranks, the rich who left their riches, the Israelite without guile, the cottager, the sinner and the harlot who were contrite; but chiefly for with these in His favourite haunts He most companioned the fishermen... read more

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