Mark 3:10

Mark 3:10

8 and Jerusalem and Idumea and beyond the Jordan; and those from Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, when they heard how ^amany things He was doing, came to Him.

9 So He told His disciples that a small boat should be kept ready for Him because of the multitude, lest they should crush Him.

10 For He healed ^amany, so that as many as had afflictions pressed about Him to ^btouch Him.

11 ^aAnd the unclean spirits, whenever they saw Him, fell down before Him and cried out, saying, ^b“You are the Son of God.”

12 But ^aHe sternly warned them that they should not make Him known.

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13 ^aAnd He went up on the mountain and called to Him those He Himself wanted. And they came to Him.

Commentaries:

Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)

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Pressed upon him (epipiptein autw). Were falling upon him to such an extent that it was dangerous. They were not hostile, but simply intensely eager, each to have his own case attended to by Jesus.

That they might touch him (ina autou aywntai). If only that much. They hoped for a cure by contact with Christ. Aorist subjunctive. It was a really pathetic scene and a tremendous strain on Jesus.

As many as had plagues (osoi eixon mastigav). Strokes or scourges, terms used by us today as a paralytic stroke, the influenza scourge. Our word plague is from plhgh (Latin plaga), from plhgnumi, to strike a blow. Common in ancient Greek in this sense. See Mark 5:29, Mark 5:34; Luke 7:21 for the same use of mastigev and also 2Macc. 9:11.

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