Mark 1:38 (WEB)
He said to them, “Let’s go elsewhere into the next towns, that I may preach there also, because I came out for this reason.”
Fathers and councils · 10
Augustine of Hippo
“Art thou come to destroy us?” and so on, down to the passage where we read, “And He preached in the synagogues throughout all Galilee, and cast out devils.”” — editor's note: Mark i. 22–39.
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Catena Aurea on Mark
- Theophylact of OhridCatena Aurea on Mark
After that the Lord had cured the sick, He retired apart. Wherefore it is said, “And rising very early in the morning, He went out and departed into a desert place.” By which He taught us not to do any thing for the…
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Not that He required prayer; for it was He who Himself received the prayers of men; but He did this by way of an economy, and became to us the model of good work.
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For He shews to us that we ought to attribute to God whatever we do well, and to say to Him, “Every good gift cometh down from above,” [James 1:17] from Thee. It continues: “And Simon followed Him, and they that were…
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Luke however says that crowds came to Christ, and spoke what Mark here relates that the Apostles said, adding, “And when they came to Him, they said to Him, All seek thee.” [Luke 4:42] But they do not contradict each…
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For He passes on to them as being more in need, since it was not right to shut up doctrine in one place, but to throw out his rays every where. It goes on: “For therefore am I come.”
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In which word, He manifests the mystery of His “emptying himself,” [see Phil. 2:7-8] that is, of His incarnation, and the sovereignty of His divine nature, in that He here asserts, that He came willingly into the…
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But by this preaching, which, he says, “He continued in all Galilee,” is also meant the sermon of the Lord delivered on the mount, which Matthew mentions, and Mark has entirely passed over, without giving any thing…
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He also mingled action with teaching, for whilst employed in preaching, He afterwards put to flight devils. For there follows: “And casting out devils.” For unless Christ shewed forth miracles, He teaching would not…
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Again, mystically if by the setting of the sun, the death of the Saviour is intended, why should not His resurrection be intended by the returning dawn? For by its clear light, He went far into the wilderness of the…
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Cross-references · 4
Cited together in Pseudo-Chrysostom on Mark 1:35–39 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Pseudo-Chrysostom on Mark 1:35–39 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Pseudo-Chrysostom on Mark 1:35–39 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Theophylact of Ohrid on Mark 1:35–39 (2) (Catena Aurea).