THE HOLY BIBLE (Darby Translation) Darby's Notes on Mark

1:2c prophet: Many read 'in the prophets.' My impression is that it was originally 'in the prophet' simply.
1:2d way: Mal. 3:1.
1:3e straight: Isa. 40:3.
1:13a ministered: As Matt. 4:11, diakoneo.
1:15b in: 'Believe in,' &c. A rare form of expression. It refers to believing, in the truth of the substance of a thing: see 2Tim. 1:12.
1:18c trawl-nets: See Note, Matt. 4:20.
1:23d by: En: see Matt. 3:11, Note c. Not merely he had one, but he was completely under its power, characterized by it.
1:24e Eh: The imperative of the verb 'to let alone,' but used as an interjection, as a cry of dissatisfaction.
1:24f Nazarene: The force of 'Nazarene' here is simply, I apprehend, 'of Nazareth.' The word is different from that translated 'Nazaraean' in Matt. 2:23 and elsewhere.
1:34a knew: Oida: had the inward consciousness of who he was: see Note, 1Cor. 8:1.
1:41b touched: 'To touch freely,' 'handle,' as Matt. 8:3.
1:45c, 2:13c came: The imperfect tense, 'were, or kept, coming to him.'
2:1d house: 'At home,' in the sense of 'not away on a journey.'
2:8e knowing: Epiginosko: 'knowing well,' or 'recognizing because he knew:' see Matt. 7:16.
2:10f power: Exousia: see Note, Matt. 9:6; 10:1.
2:21a new: Lit. 'unfulled' or 'unmilled,' as Matt. 9:16.
2:26b of: i.e. in the section of a book in which the fact is recorded.
3:5c distressed: The Greek word is found here only. It is questioned whether it means 'sympathizing grief' (as LXX, Ps. 69:20;) or 'deep grief.' There is, I apprehend, sorrow for, with an intensive force in it; not sympathy, which is feeling with, but feeling what a state they were in, with grief for it.
3:6d counsel: The word is used also for a council, Acts 25:12. It may be more in this sense here, but a private one.
3:13a mountain: The mountain in contrast with the plain: see Note, Matt. 5:1.
3:15b power: Exousia: see Note, Matt. 10:1.
3:18c Cananaean: Or 'Zealot,' Cananaean being the Hebrew for 'zealot.'
3:22d By: Lit. 'in the power of.' En: see Matt. 3:11, Note c.
3:28e the: Lit. 'whatever the.'
4:8a increasing: These words agree literally with 'fruit,' and must be applied by general allusion either to the plant, or directly to its figurative purport.
4:12b be: Or 'perhaps:' see Matt. 13:29; 15:32; 25:9; Acts 5:39; 'perhaps' is, I suspect, the sense: see also Matt. 5:25.
4:12c forgiven: See Isa. 6:9-10.
4:19d life: Aion: see Note h, Matt. 13:22.
4:21e bushel: See Matt. 5:15.
5:2a by: See Note, ch. 1:23.
5:7b God: 'Most High' is here and elsewhere a proper name: see Luke 1:32. It is Elyon in Hebrew: Gen. 14:18.
5:15a sensible: As Luke 8:35.
5:18b ship: Or 'the ship:' see Note, Matt. 4:21.
5:20c Decapolis: See Note, Matt. 4:25.
5:23d live: Some read, 'and she shall live,' which may be right.
5:27e clothes: Here it is singular: in vers. 28 and 30, plural and more general.
5:28f touch: As ch. 1:41.
5:38a comes: Many read, 'they come.'
6:7b power: Exousia: see Note, Matt. 10:1.
6:14c by: Or 'display their force in:' see Matt. 14:2; 'fervent,' Jas. 5:16.
6:18a said: Imperfect tense, 'kept saying:' see Matt. 14:4. Cf. Mark 1:45.
6:20b safe: Or 'observed him diligently.' The word has the force of 'watching closely, and keeping in mind,' whether to pay attention to, or to preserve. Which of these applications is the just one is the question. It is used four times (three besides this); twice for 'preserved,' as the wine and the bottles, Matt. 9:17; Luke 5:38; once for Mary's 'keeping' things in her heart, Luke 2:19. I should have preferred 'observed him diligently,' but that I do not find it used of a person, meaning 'paying attention to what he says.' It is used of words and opinions, but then it has still the force of 'keeping them safe.'
6:21c holiday: The meaning is doubtful: perhaps 'convenient day,' i.e. to Herodias's future purpose. Not a festival, but a leisure day.
6:21d chiliarchs: Commanders of 1,000 men.
6:41a blessed: Or 'gave thanks.'
6:45b ship: Or 'the ship:' see Matt. 4:21.
6:46c dismissed: As 'bid adieu,' Luke 9:61.
6:52d through: Or 'even after.' The 'through' (epi) denotes the occasion for their believing.
6:55e was: Lit. 'where they heard that he is there.'
6:56f touched: As ch. 1:41.
7:3g diligently: Or 'often:' lit. 'with the fist,' a word of very uncertain and contested meaning.
7:3h, 7:5a ancients: Or 'the tradition of the elders.'
7:6b written: Isa. 29:13.
7:9c yourselves: Or 'your tradition.'
7:10d said: Ex. 20:12.
7:10e and: Ex. 21:17.
7:10f of: Or 'abuses,' 'curses.'
7:11g corban: See Note at Matt. 27:6.
7:22h covetousness: Lit. 'covetousnesses.' As 'greedy unsatisfied lust,' Eph. 4:19: see Note, Eph. 5:3.
7:22i language: Lit. 'blasphemy,' as Eph. 4:31.
7:27k children, children's: Teknon: 'children' in the sense of being born of the family, used by John to signify this relationship in Christians, as born of God; see 1John 3:1: different from huios, 'sons.'
7:27l dogs, 7:28l Yea: See Matt. 15:26, 27
7:28m children's: Paidion, or 'little children' (a diminutive), without particular reference to the family they are of: see 1John 2:13.
7:31a Decapolis: As ch. 5:20.
7:34b groaned: Stenazo: as Rom. 8:23; 2Cor. 5:2-4.
7:37c does: Or 'has done:' the perfect tense.
8:10d, 8:13d ship: Or 'the ship,' as ch. 6:45.
8:12e groaning: Or 'groaning deeply.'
8:12f given: Lit. 'if a sign shall be given;' Hebraism, as in Heb. 3:11.
8:23a beheld: Lit. 'beholds.'
8:30b straitly: Or 'strictly.'
8:32c thing: Logos, 'matter' or 'discourse.'
8:35d shall: 'Shall' has the sense of the conditional or subjunctive here, of possibility.
9:1e not: A strengthened negative, 'in no wise.'
9:1f come: Lit. 'having come,' not 'coming.'
9:2a transfigured: As Matt. 17:2: 'transformed,' Rom. 12:2; 2Cor. 3:18.
9:7b overshadowing: See Note, Matt. 17:5.
9:10c rising: Or 'the rising.'
9:15d amazed: Only here and chs. 14:33; 16:5, 6.
9:19e long: Lit. 'until when.'
9:26a most: The general mass of people there.
9:34b greatest: See Note, Matt. 18:1.
9:42c, 9:43c snare: See Note g, Matt. 18:6, 'offend.'
9:42d millstone: Lit. 'ass's millstone:' see Note h, Matt. 18:6.
9:43e, 9:45e, 9:47e hell: Gehenna.
10:8a be: Lit. 'to' (eis) or 'for one flesh.' It corresponds to the Hebrew in Gen. 2:24: see Matt. 19:5.
10:16b blessed: Some read 'blesses,' perhaps rightly, but the word is a strong one: 'blesses them abundantly.'
10:29a gospel: Or 'glad tidings,' as elsewhere.
10:37b glory: Or 'that in thy glory we may sit: one on thy right hand, and one on thy left hand.' Or 'that we may sit in thy glory,' &c.
10:40c for: Or perhaps 'to:' so Matt. 20:23. But the emphasis is on the words 'not mine to give;' wonderful perfectness and lowliness of the Lord! 'It is not mine to give,' is a complete phrase followed by the separate statement, 'but it is reserved for those for whom it is prepared:' it is for them, appropriated to them.
10:43d, 10:45d minister, 10:45d ministered: Diakoneo: as Matt. 4:11.
10:47e was: Lit. 'is.'
10:51a Rabboni: See John 20:16.
11:1b to, at: Eis and pros: see Notes, Matt. 21:1; Eph. 4:12.
11:2c man: Lit. 'no one of men.'
11:4d crossway: Leading round the house, not the main street.
11:6e commanded: Or, as some authorities read, 'said.'
11:7f cast: Imperfect: 'were casting;' but many read the present tense.
11:9g Lord's: 'Lord' here is 'Jehovah.' See Ps. 118:25-26.
11:11h, 11:15h, 11:16h temple: Hieron, the general buildings.
11:16i package: Or 'vessel.'
11:17k written: Isa. 56:7.
11:17l robbers: Jer. 7:11.
11:23a, 11:24a for: Lit. 'shall be to.'
11:24b ask: Aiteo: see Note b, John 14:16.
11:25c, 11:26c offences: Trespasses.
11:27d temple: As ch. 11:11.
12:10e scripture: Ps. 118:22-23.
12:10f rejected: As Ch. 8:31: 'cast away as worthless,' 1Pet. 2:4, 7.
12:10a corner-stone: Lit. 'Head of corner.'
12:11b this, it: 'This' and 'it' refer to 'corner-stone' grammatically.
12:12c of: Or 'against.'
12:14d person: Or 'appearance.'
12:19e us: Deut. 25:5.
12:26f Moses: Ex. 3:6.
12:26g bush: See Note at ch. 2:26.
12:27h He: Or, as some authorities read, 'God is not God of the dead, but God of the living.'
12:28i perceiving: Oida: see 1Cor. 8:1. Or 'knowing,' inward knowledge, as ver. 15.
12:29k is: Deut. 6:4-5.
12:31l this: Lev. 19:18.
12:33a intelligence: The word is different from that translated 'understanding' in v. 30.
12:35b, 13:1b, 13:3b temple: As ch. 11:11.
12:36c Spirit: Ps. 110:1.
12:37d people: Lit. 'the great crowd.'
12:40e judgment: Krima, lit. 'sentence:' see Note, Luke 20:47.
12:42f farthing: Kodrantes, as Matt. 5:26.
13:9g sanhedrims: As Matt. 10:17.
13:10h gospel: Or 'glad tidings.'
13:12a cause: Though the word means 'to kill,' yet not necessarily personally; it means to bring it about, judicially, for instance, so I have put 'cause.'
13:14b desolation: 'Desolation' is an active word, 'causing desolation,' 'desolating,' not an accomplished state: see Matt. 24:15; Dan. 9:27.
13:14c consider: 'Weigh with intelligence so as to understand,' 'perceive:' see ch. 8:17, 'perceive,' and Rom. 1:20.
13:20d Lord: Without the article, 'Jehovah.'
13:25e down: Or 'out of their place.'
14:2a perhaps: See Note, Matt. 5:25.
14:3b pure: Perhaps 'liquid.' The word is only found here and John 12:3, evidently a known kind of nard. It is by no means impossible it may be derived from the Latin spicatae, which was the best kind of nard; hence, doubtless, the English translation 'spikenard.' The sense is plain: that it was of the best and most precious kind. See Note, John 12:3.
14:13c pitcher: Or 'earthen pitcher,' as Luke 22:10.
14:18d, 14:20d who: Not to designate the person, but the character, as adding to grief: see Ps. 41:9.
14:23a the: Perhaps 'a cup.' 1Cor. 11:25 has 'the.'
14:25b new: Kainos, as Matt. 26:29; not 'anew,' but 'in a new way' or 'of a new kind.'
14:26c hymn: As Matt. 26:30.
14:27d offended: Or 'find an occasion of stumbling,' as Matt. 13:57.
14:27e written: Zech. 13:7.
14:33f spirit: Or 'deeply depressed:' see Matt. 26:37.
14:45g kisses: As Luke 15:20.
14:54a, 14:66a palace: See Note, Matt. 26:69.
14:58b temple: Naos, the house itself. See Note at Matt. 4:5.
14:60c all: Lit. 'in the midst.'
14:61d Blessed: 'The Blessed' was used to designate God.
14:65e hands: Many read, 'received him with buffets.' The sense is the same. Some of the doctors 'began to spit on him;' the officers received him with these insults, another step in the scene of his blessed humiliation: see Note, Matt. 26:67.
14:68f, 14:71f know: Oida: see 1Cor. 8:1.
14:72g wept: As Luke 19:41.
15:7a that: 'Who were such as:' see Matt. 27:55.
15:16b band: See Note b, Matt. 27:27.
15:28c lawless: Many leave out this verse, though it is in Luke: see Isa. 53:12.
15:29d temple: Naos; so ver. 38, and ch. 14:58: see Note, Matt. 4:5.
15:33a land: Or 'earth:' see Matt. 5:5.
15:38b temple: Naos, as ver. 29.
16:5c, 16:6c alarmed: The Greek word embraces, I think, the complex idea expressed by both 'amazed' and 'alarmed.' The second time it is used I have given the latter only, as sufficiently recalling the idea. The word occurs only here and in chs. 9:15; 14:33.
16:17a new: Kainos: see Note, Heb. 12:24.
16:18b not: 'In no wise:' a strong negative.

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