The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel According to St. Mark
The Expositor's Bible
The Gospel According to St. Mark
By The
Very Rev. G. A. Chadwick, D.D.
Dean of Armagh
Hodder & Stoughton
New York
George H. Doran Company
1900
“The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, Even as it is written in Isaiah the prophet, Behold, I send My messenger before Thy face, who shall prepare Thy way; The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make ye ready the way of the Lord, Make His paths straight; John came, who baptized in the wilderness and preached the baptism of repentance unto remission of sins. And there went out unto him all the country of Judæa, and all they of Jerusalem; and they were baptized of him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins. And John was clothed with camel's hair, and had a leathern girdle about his loins, and did eat locusts and wild honey.”—Mark, i. 1-6 (R.V.).
The opening of St. Mark's Gospel is energetic and full of character. St. Matthew traces for Jews the pedigree of their Messiah; St. Luke's worldwide sympathies linger with the maiden who bore Jesus, and the village of His boyhood; and St. John's theology proclaims the Divine origin of the Eternal Lord. But St. Mark trusts the public acts of the Mighty Worker to do for the reader what they did for those who first “beheld His glory.” How He came to earth can safely be left untold: what He was will appear by what He wrought. It is enough to record, with matchless vividness, the toils, the energy, the love and wrath, the defeat and triumph of the brief career which changed the world. It will prove itself to be the career of “the Son of God.”
G. A. Chadwick
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Contents
Chapter I.
The Beginning Of The Gospel.
At The Jordan.
The Temptation.
The Early Preaching And The First Disciples.
Teaching With Authority.
Miracles.
The Demoniac.
A Group Of Miracles.
Jesus In Solitude.
The Leper.
Chapter II.
The Sick Of The Palsy.
The Son Of Man.
The Call And Feast Of Levi.
The Controversy Concerning Fasting.
The Sabbath.
Chapter III.
The Withered Hand.
The Choice Of The Twelve.
Characteristics Of The Twelve.
The Apostle Judas.
Christ And Beelzebub.
“Eternal Sin.”
The Friends Of Jesus.
Chapter IV.
The Parables.
The Sower.
Lamp And Stand.
The Seed Growing Secretly.
The Mustard Seed.
Four Miracles.
The Two Storms.
Chapter V.
The Demoniac Of Gadara.
The Men Of Gadara.
With Jairus.
Chapter VI.
Rejected In His Own Country.
The Mission Of The Twelve.
Herod.
Bread In The Desert.
Jesus Walking On The Water.
Unwashen Hands.
Chapter VII.
Things Which Defile.
The Children And The Dogs.
The Deaf And Dumb Man.
Chapter VIII.
The Four Thousand.
The Leaven Of The Pharisees.
Men As Trees.
The Confession And The Warning.
The Rebuke Of Peter.
Chapter IX.
The Transfiguration.
The Descent From The Mount.
The Demoniac Boy.
Jesus And The Disciples.
Offences.
Chapter X.
Divorce.
Christ And Little Children.
The Rich Inquirer.
Who Then Can Be Saved?
Christ's Cup And Baptism.
The Law Of Greatness.
Bartimæus.
Chapter XI.
The Triumphant Entry.
The Barren Fig-Tree.
The Second Cleansing Of The Temple.
The Baptism Of John, Whence Was It?
Chapter XII.
The Husbandmen.
The Tribute Money.
Christ And The Sadducees.
The Discerning Scribe.
David's Lord.
The Widow's Mite.
Chapter XIII.
Things Perishing And Things Stable.
The Impending Judgment.
Chapter XIV.
The Cruse Of Ointment.
The Traitor.
The Sop.
Bread And Wine.
The Warning.
In The Garden.
The Agony.
The Arrest.
Before Caiaphas.
The Fall Of Peter.
Chapter XV.
Pilate.
Christ Crucified.
The Death Of Jesus.
Chapter XVI.
Christ Risen.
The Ascension.
Footnotes