Mark 3

Mark 3:2

ANd they] namely the Scribes and Pharisees which were there present.

Mark 3:3

Stand forth] to the end that the miracle should be manifest.

Mark 3:10

Plagues] that is to say any corporall infirmitie or discommodity sent by Godfor a punishment or correction.

Mark 3:11

Uncleane spirits] which were in the possessed.

Mark 3:17

Boanerges] to represent the power of the Gospell which they preached, it being a voyce from heaven, able to affright, and terrifie mens consciences, for the salvation of the elect, and condemnation of unbeleevers. See Ioel 3. 16. Hebrews 12:26.

Mark 3:21

His friends] this is diversly understood: some hold that these were some of Iesus his kins-folkes, which did not beleeve in him, Iohn 〈◊〉. ver. 3. 4, 5. and that here they sought to take him: either because they imagined really that those divine motions which they saw in him, and his extraordinary manner of proceeding, were effects of some distraction in his minde. Or that they made shew of beleeving him, for to rescue him from the Pharisees persecution. Others hold that they were some of his good friends come to take him out of the throng and presse he was in, which was ready to make him faint: and to this sense they re¦ferre the words, he is beside himselfe. But the ensuing calumny of the Iewes seems to confirme the first sense.

Mark 3:26

And be,] others, he is divided and cannot subsist.

Mark 3:30

They said,] contrary to the internall feeling of their conscience which was inlightned and convinced by the holy Ghost which they out of meer malice opposed.

Mark 3:31

His brethren,] this seemes to be a continuation and taking againe of what was spoken, v. 2. and it may be that there were diverse opinions, and severall intentions amongst these friends of his.