Mark 1:33

Greek (Tischendorf 8th ed.)

English Translation

All the city was gathered together at the door.

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ἐπισυνηγμένη

episynágō

G1996

“to gather together”

Verb, Perfect, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Feminine

Appears 8× in the Greek New Testament
First appears at Matthew 23:37

Full Thayer's Definition

Origin: from G1909 and G4863

TDNT: None

1. to gather together besides, to bring together to others already assembled 2. to gather together against 3. to gather together in one place

About this verse

These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →

9: words
8: distinct lemmas
Gospels: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is ἐπισυνηγμένη to gather together G1996 — appearing just 8 times in the whole Greek New Testament.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

ἐπισυνηγμένη to gather together G1996 occurs in 7 verses of the Greek New Testament. Also found in:

Repetition

A word recurs within this verse:

ἡ the G3588 ×2

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to Mark 1:33 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Mark 1:5 All the country of Judea and all those of Jerusalem went out to him. They were baptized by him in the Jordan river, confessing their sins.
Acts 13:44 The next Sabbath almost the whole city was gathered together to hear the word of God.

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Commentary

Notes on Mark 1:33 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

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Commentary source

Tyndale Open Study Notes

Tyndale Open Resources

1:33 Jesus’ popularity among the crowds was growing (also in 1:37, 39, 45), as contrasted with the growing rejection by the leaders (2:1–3:6).

Tyndale Open Study Notes — © Tyndale Open Resources, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Bengel's Gnomon

Johann Albrecht Bengel

Mar 1:33. Ὅλη, the whole) the sick, the bearers of them, and the spectators.

Bengel's Gnomon of the New Testament — English translation (T&T Clark, Edinburgh, 1860) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Expositor's Greek Testament

ed. W. Robertson Nicoll

Mar 1:33 . ὅλη ἡ πόλις , a colloquial exaggeration. πρὸς τ . θύραν : the door of Peter’s house. Meyer thinks that in the interval Jesus had gone to His own house, and that it was there the people gathered. But does Mark’s gospel think of Jesus as having a residence in Capernaum? Weiss answers in the negative.

The Expositor's Greek Testament, edited by W. Robertson Nicoll (1897–1910) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown

And all the city was gathered together at the door--of Peter's house; that is, the sick and those who brought them, and the wondering spectators. This bespeaks the presence of an eye-witness, and is one of those lively examples of word-painting so frequent in this Gospel.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

33. at the door] i. e. the door of St Peter’s house, “the door so well known to him who supplied St Mark with materials for his Gospel.” St Matthew connects the cures now wrought with the prophecy of Isa_53:4, Himself took our infirmities and bare our sicknesses.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

And all the city was gathered together at the door. That is, the inhabitants of the city of Capernaum, a very great number of them at least, who having either heard of, or seen the dispossession of the unclean spirit in the synagogue in the daytime; and being willing to see what miraculous cures might be wrought by Christ upon the diseased and possessed that were brought to him, got together in great crowds about the door of the house of Simon and Andrew where Jesus now was.

And all the city was gathered together at the door. That is, the inhabitants of the city of Capernaum, a very great number of them at least, who having either heard of, or seen the dispossession of the unclean spirit in the synagogue in the daytime; and being willing to see what miraculous cures might be wrought by Christ upon the diseased and possessed that were brought to him, got together in great crowds about the door of the house of Simon and Andrew where Jesus now was.

Mark 1:34

mar 1:34

mar 1:34

mar 1:34And he healed many that were sick of divers diseases,.... Not that there were some, who had some sorts of diseases, whom he did not heal; but he healed all that came, or were brought to him, which were many, of every sort of disease, which were divers, with which they were afflicted:

and cast many devils; even as many as were brought to him, or were possessed with any:

and he suffered not the devils to speak; either for him, or against him; which shows his great power over them:

because they knew him, or "that they knew him": he would not suffer them to say a word about him, because he knew that they knew that he was the Christ, the Son of God, or he would not permit them to say who he was; because he had others to bear witness of him, and better testimonies than theirs, and lest his enemies should reproach him with an agreement and familiarity with them.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

33 And all the city was gathered together at the door.

Ver. 33. All the city] i.e. The sick folk in the city by a synecdoche. {a} As all that were in debt or distress came to David, and he received them; so all that were diseased came to this Son of David, and he relieved them.

{a} A figure by which a more comprehensive term is used for a less comprehensive or vice versa; as whole for part or part for whole, genus for species or species for genus, etc. Formerly sometimes used loosely or vaguely, and not infrequently misexplained. ŒD

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Pulpit Commentary

Vers. 33, 34. The whole city was gathered together at the door. This would probably be the outer door in the wall, opening into the street; so that this need not be regarded as a hyperbolic statement. It is evidently the description of an eye-witness, or of one who had it from an eye-witness. He healed all that had need of healing, and he suffered not the devils to speak, for the reasons. assigned at ver. 25.

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

And the whole city was gathered together at the door - O what a fair prospect was here! Who could then have imagined that all these blossoms would die away without fruit?

John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.

Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges

33. ὅλη ἡ πόλις. Popular hyperbole, like πᾶσα and πάντες in Mar 1:5, and πάντες in Mar 1:37.

ἐπισυνηγμένη πρὸς τὴν θύραν. “Flocked towards the door and formed a dense crowd there.” Note the periphrastic tense (Mar 1:6; Mar 1:22), and the double compound; one concourse came on the top of another. Cf. ἐπισυνάγαγε ἡμᾶς ἐκ τῶν ἐθνῶν (Psa 106:47). Mt., as often, omits the dense crowds which impeded Christ.

Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges (Cambridge University Press, 1896; 21 vols, various authors incl. Carr, Maclear, Plummer, Farrar, Lumby, Moule, M. R. James, Simcox) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

International Critical Commentary

33. ἦν ὅλη ἡ πόλις ἐπισυνηγμένη—all the city was gathered.3 It was all the sick that were brought, and all the city that gathered at the door. The miracle in the synagogue caused a popular uprising.

International Critical Commentary — older volumes (1896–1929), various authors — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament

Marvin R. Vincent

All the city was gathered together at the door

Peculiar to Mark.

Marvin R. Vincent, Word Studies in the New Testament (1887–1900) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

Lesson kit

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Mark, in the Gospels, opens this verse with 9 words (8 distinct Greek lemmas). Its most distinctive word is episynágō (“to gather together”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

What does “to gather together” (episynágō) contribute to the verse as a whole?
Matthew 23:37 shares the word «to gather together» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
“the” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
Reading how Tyndale Open Study Notes and Bengel's Gnomon read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

These translations choose different wording for 2 words in this verse.
“the” occurs 2× in this single verse.
8 distinct Greek lemmas span 9 words in this verse.