Mark 1:21-34

21 et ingrediuntur Capharnaum et statim sabbatis ingressus synagogam docebat eos

22 et stupebant super doctrina eius erat enim docens eos quasi potestatem habens et non sicut scribae

23 et erat in synagoga eorum homo in spiritu inmundo et exclamavit

24 dicens quid nobis et tibi Iesu Nazarene venisti perdere nos scio qui sis Sanctus Dei

25 et comminatus est ei Iesus dicens obmutesce et exi de homine

26 et discerpens eum spiritus inmundus et exclamans voce magna exivit ab eo

27 et mirati sunt omnes ita ut conquirerent inter se dicentes quidnam est hoc quae doctrina haec nova quia in potestate et spiritibus inmundis imperat et oboediunt ei

28 et processit rumor eius statim in omnem regionem Galilaeae

29 et protinus egredientes de synagoga venerunt in domum Simonis et Andreae cum Iacobo et Iohanne

30 decumbebat autem socrus Simonis febricitans et statim dicunt ei de illa

31 et accedens elevavit eam adprehensa manu eius et continuo dimisit eam febris et ministrabat eis

32 vespere autem facto cum occidisset sol adferebant ad eum omnes male habentes et daemonia habentes

33 et erat omnis civitas congregata ad ianuam

34 et curavit multos qui vexabantur variis languoribus et daemonia multa eiciebat et non sinebat loqui ea quoniam sciebant eum

Mark 1:21-34 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO MARK

This is the title of the book, the subject of which is the Gospel; a joyful account of the ministry, miracles, actions, and sufferings of Christ: the writer of it was not one of the twelve apostles, but an evangelist; the same with John Mark, or John, whose surname was Mark: John was his Hebrew name, and Mark his Gentile name, Ac 12:12,25, and was Barnabas's sister's son, Col 4:10, his mother's name was Mary, Ac 12:12. The Apostle Peter calls him his son, 1Pe 5:13, if he is the same; and he is thought to have wrote his Gospel from him {a}, and by his order, and which was afterwards examined and approved by him {b} it is said to have been wrote originally in Latin, or in the Roman tongue: so say the Arabic and Persic versions at the beginning of it, and the Syriac version says the same at the end: but of this there is no evidence, any more, nor so much, as of Matthew's writing his Gospel in Hebrew. The old Latin copy of this, is a version from the Greek; it is most likely that it was originally written in Greek, as the rest of the New Testament.

{a} Papias apud Euseb. Hist. l. 3. c. 39. Tertull. adv. Marcion. l. 4. c. 5. {b} Hieron. Catalog. Script. Eccles. p. 91. sect. 18.