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Jesus in the Synagogue, Joakim Skovgaard

Mark 3:12

Joakim Skovgaard, Jesus in the Synagogue, 1914 · Public domainJoakim Skovgaard, Jesus in the Synagogue, 1914

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Mark 3:12 (WEB)

He sternly warned them that they should not make him known.

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Augustine of Hippo

  • “Mark, it is true, seems to some extent to have kept by the historical order: for he tells us how Jesus, on discovering the malignant disposition which was entertained toward Him by the Jews, withdrew to the sea along with His disciples, and that then vast multitudes flocked to Him, and He healed great numbers of them.” — editor's note: Mark iii. 7–12.

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Catena Aurea on Mark

  • BedeCatena Aurea on Mark

    The Pharisees, thinking it a crime that at the word of the Lord the hand which was diseased was restored to a sound state, agreed to make a pretext of the words spoken by our Saviour. Wherefore it is said, “And the…

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  • Theophylact of OhridCatena Aurea on Mark

    But the soldiers of Herod the king are called Herodians, because a certain new heresy had sprung up, which asserted that Herod was the Christ. For the prophecy of Jacob intimated that when the princes of Judah failed…

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  • BedeCatena Aurea on Mark

    Or else he calls Herodians the servants of Herod the Tetrarch, who on account of the hatred which their lord had for John, pursued with treachery and hate the Saviour also, Whom John preached. It goes on, “But Jesus…

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  • Theophylact of OhridCatena Aurea on Mark

    At the same time again, He goes away, that by quitting the ungrateful He might do good to more, “for many followed Him, and He healed them.” For there follows, “And a great multitude from Galilee, &c.” Syrians and…

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  • BedeCatena Aurea on Mark

    For the strangers followed Him, because they saw the works of His powers, and in order to hear the words of His teaching. But the Jews, induced solely by their opinion of His powers, in a vast multitude come to hear…

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  • Theophylact of OhridCatena Aurea on Mark

    Consider then how He hid His glory, for He begs for a little ship, lest the crowd should hurt Him, so that entering into it, He might remain unharmed. It follows, “As many as had scourges, &c.” But he means by…

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  • BedeCatena Aurea on Mark

    Both therefore fell down before the Lord, those who had the plagues of bodily diseases, and those who were vexed by unclean spirits. The sick did this simply with the intention of obtaining health, but the demoniacs,…

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  • Theophylact of OhridCatena Aurea on Mark

    Morally again, the Herodians, that is, persons who love the lusts of the flesh, wish to slay Christ. For the meaning of Herod is, ‘of skin’ [ed. note: pelliceus, see Hier. de Nom. Hebr.]. But those who quit their…

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  • Matthew 12:16 and Mark 3:12 share the same wording (8 words).

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