Mark 6
Mark 6 | |
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Book | Gospel of Mark |
Category | Gospel |
Christian Bible part | New Testament |
Order in the Christian part | 2 |
Gospel of Mark |
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Mark 6 is the sixth chapter of the
Text
The original text was written in Koine Greek. This chapter is divided into 56 verses.
Textual witnesses
Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter are:
- Codex Vaticanus (325-350; complete)
- Codex Sinaiticus (330-360; complete)
- Codex Bezae (~400; complete)
- Codex Alexandrinus (400-440; complete)
- Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus (~450; extant verses 1-31)
In 1972, Spanish papyrologist
Verse 1
Jesus leaves "from there" (i.e.
.Rejection of Jesus at Nazareth
Mark relates the story of Jesus' initial acclaim and later rejection at Nazareth, "his own country". The account is also found in
and Simon? Aren't his sisters here with us?"Jesus replies with a proverb, Only in his hometown, among his relatives and in his own house is a prophet without honor.[11] John 4:44 records the same sentiment: Jesus Himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country, but in John's account the Galileans received Him, having seen all the things He did in Jerusalem at the feast.[12]
Mission of the Twelve
In verses 7–13, Jesus sends the twelve out to the various towns, in pairs, to heal the sick and drive out demons:
- 7 And he called the twelve and began to send them out two by two, and gave them authority over the unclean spirits. 8 He charged them to take nothing for their journey except a staff — no bread, no bag, no money in their belts — 9 but to wear sandals and not put on two tunics. (Verses 7–9).[14]
Irish Bishop George Chadwick argues that in the face of rejection, Jesus' response is to accelerate his mission, varying as well as multiplying the means for the evangelisation of the country.[15] The twelve who he sends out are to take only their staffs, and if any town rejects them, they are to "... shake the dust off your feet when you leave, as a testimony against them" (11), which Robert Miller describes as "... a gesture both of contempt and of warning".[16][full citation needed]
"Tunics" (Greek: δύο χιτῶνας, duo chitonas, verse 9) were the long garments worn under the cloak, next to the skin.[17]
The death of John the Baptist
Mark then tells of the death of
Feeding of the five thousand and walking on water
The "apostles", (οἱ ἀπόστολοι, hoi apostoloi) come back (regroup) and report to Jesus on "what they had done and what they had taught". Anglican writer
Mark then relates two miracles of Jesus. When they land, a large crowd is already waiting for them. Jesus teaches them several unrecorded things, then feeds the entire crowd of 5,000 men (Greek: ἄνδρες, andres, most frequently meaning 'male adult' in New Testament usage [20]) by turning five loaves of bread and two fish into enough food to feed everyone. Matthew 14:21 says there were 5,000 men "besides woman and children".
Jesus sends the disciples in a boat ahead of him to Bethsaida. It is night and they are only halfway across when Jesus walks across the lake and meets them. At first they are scared and think it is a ghost, but Jesus reveals himself and gets into the boat, amazing the disciples.
These two miracles occur in John 6:1-24 and Matthew 14:13-36 and the feeding of the crowd is in Luke 9:10-17.
The feeding of the 5,000 people and the resurrection of Jesus appear to be the only miracles recorded simultaneously in all four Gospels.[21]
Healing of the sick of Gennesaret
They reach
See also
Notes
- ^ Biblica 53 (1972) 91-100. Translated into English by W. L. Holladay in Journal of Biblical Literature 91 (1972) supplement no. 2.
- JSTOR 3262758.
- ISBN 0-8147-5637-9.
C.P. Thiede drew on papyrology, statistics and forensic microscopy to try to prove O'Callaghan's case, yet without convincing the majority of other leading specialists.
- ^
McCready, Wayne O. (1997). "The Historical Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls". In Arnal, William E.; Desjardins, Michael (eds.). Whose Historical Jesus?. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press. p. 193. ISBN 0-88920-295-8.. "On the whole, O'Callaghan's thesis has met with scholarly skepticism since the fragments are extremely small, almost illegible, and his strongest case does not agree with known versions of Mark."
- ^ "... Qumran ms. 7Q5 ... is captioned as if it contains a fragment of Mark: it was of course O'Callaghan who made that controversial — and now virtually universally rejected — identification of this Dead Sea text as a piece of the New Testament ..." Elliot (2004), JK, Book Notes, Novum Testamentum, Volume 45, Number 2, 2003, pp. 203.
- ^ Gundry (1999), p.698. Carlo Maria Martini, S.J., Archbishop of Milan and part of the five member team which edited the definitive modern edition of the Greek New Testament for the United Bible Societies agreed with O'Callaghan's identification and assertions.
- ^ Alford, H., Greek Testament Critical Exegetical Commentary - Alford on Mark 6, accessed 9 March 2023
- ^ Mark 6:1: 1881 Westcott-Hort New Testament
- ^ a b c Meyer, H. A. W. (1880), Meyer's NT Commentary on Mark 6, translated from the German sixth edition, accessed 9 March 2023
- ^ Mark 6:2
- ^ a b Maclear, G. F. (1893), Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges on Mark 6, accessed 18 November 2017
- ^ John 4:45
- ^ "Jesus' Family Was Not Supportive - Jesus Police Website". Archived from the original on 2007-01-15. Retrieved 2006-09-18. "Wilson (1992) [Wilson, A. N., Jesus: A life. 1992. New York: Norton & Co.] has hypothesized that the negative relationship between Jesus and his family was placed in the Gospels (especially in the Gospel of Mark) to dissuade early Christians from following the Jesus cult that was administered by Jesus' family. Wilson says: "...it would not be surprising if other parts of the church, particularly the Gentiles, liked telling stories about Jesus as a man who had no sympathy or support from his family" (p. 86). Butz (2005) [Butz, Jeffrey. The brother of Jesus and the lost teachings of Christianity. 2005. Rochester, Vermont: Inner Traditions.] is more succinct: "...by the time Mark was writing in the late 60s, the Gentile churches outside of Israel were beginning to resent the authority wielded by Jerusalem where James and the apostles were leaders, thus providing the motive for Mark’s antifamily stance... (p. 44)." Other prominent scholars agree (e.g., Crosson, 1973 [Crosson, John Dominic. “Mark and the relatives of Jesus”. Novum Testamentum, 15, 1973]; Mack, 1988 [Mack, Burton. A myth of innocence: Mark and Christian origins. 1988. Philadelphia: Fortress]; Painter. 1999 [Painter, John. Just James: The brother of Jesus in history and tradition. 1999. Minneapolis: Fortress Press])."
- ^ Mark 6:7–9 ESV
- ^ Chadwick, G. A. (1896), The Mission of the Twelve, accessed 26 March 2020
- ^ Miller 26
- ^ Note [a] on Mark 6:9 in ESV
- ^ Nicoll, W. R., Expositor's Greek Testament on Mark 6, accessed 27 March 2020
- ^ See the Westcott-Hort text
- ^ Strong's Greek Concordance: 435
- ISBN 978-0-521-00720-7. Retrieved 28 August 2012.
- ^ Jewish Encyclopedia: Jesus: "Jesus wore the Ẓiẓit (Matt. ix. 20)"; Strong's Concordance G2899; Walter Bauer's Greek-English Lexicon of the NT, 3rd ed., 1979: "κράσπεδον: 1. edge, border, hem of a garment – But meaning 2 is also possible for these passages, depending on how strictly Jesus followed Mosaic law, and also upon the way in which κράσπεδον was understood by the authors and first readers of the gospels. 2. tassel (ציצת), which the Israelite was obligated to wear on the four corners of his outer garment, according to Num 15:38f; Dt 22:12. ... Of the Pharisees ... Mt 23:5." See also Christianity and fringed garments.
- ^ a b Kilgallen 124
- ^ Brown 136
Sources
- Brown, Raymond E., An Introduction to the New Testament, Doubleday 1997 ISBN 0-385-24767-2
- Kilgallen, John J., A Brief Commentary of the Gospel of Mark, Paulist Press 1989 ISBN 0-8091-3059-9
- Miller, Robert J., The Complete Gospels, Polebridge Press 1994 ISBN 0-06-065587-9
External links
- Strong's G652 – apostolos
- Mark 6 King James Bible - Wikisource
- English Translation with Parallel Latin Vulgate
- Online Bible at GospelHall.org (ESV, KJV, Darby, American Standard Version, Bible in Basic English)
- Multiple bible versions at Bible Gateway (NKJV, NIV, NRSV etc.)
Preceded by Mark 5 |
Chapters of the Bible Gospel of Mark |
Succeeded by Mark 7 |