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Mark 3:15

Greek (Tischendorf 8th ed.) Mark 3:15 appears in the Greek New Testament. The text above is from the Tischendorf 8th edition. Each word links to its Strong’s number and a concise gloss. Click any word for its full Thayer’s Greek Lexicon entry.
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Mark 3:15 (World English Bible). Public Domain. Lemma interlinear Bible study tool, https://lemma.gebible.app/v/mark/3/15.

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and to have authority to heal sicknesses and to cast out demons:
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    and to have authority to heal sicknesses and to cast out demons:
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And to have power to heal sicknesses, and to cast out devils:
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    and to have authority to cast out the demons.

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    and to have authority to heal sicknesses and to cast out demons:
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    and to have authority to drive out demons.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    and to have authority to heal sicknesses and to drive out demons:
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And to have power to heal sicknesses, and to cast out devils:
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    and to have authority to cast out demons:
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    and to have authority to cast out devils:
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    And that they might haue power to heale sicknesses, and to cast out deuils.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And he gave them power to heal sicknesses, and to cast out devils.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    and to have power to heal the sicknesses, and to cast out the demons.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    and to have power to heal the sicknesses, and to cast out the demons.
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    and to have authority to cast out demons.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    and to have authority to cast out the demons.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    and to have power [to heal diseases, and] to cast out demons.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    and to have authority to heal sicknesses and to cast out demons:
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And to have power to heal sicknesses, and to cast out demons.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    and with the authority to drive out demons.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And give them the power of driving out evil spirits:
  • Text-Critical English NT CC BY 4.0
    and to have authority to heal diseases and cast out demons.
  • Tyndale New Testament (1534) Public Domain
    and that they might have power to heale syknesses and to cast out devyls.

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    θεραπεύειν τὰς νόσους καὶ

    “to heal <the> diseases and”

    In TRByz Not in NA28NA27TynSBLWHTreg

    θεραπεύειν τὰς νόσους καὶ (therapeuein tas nosous kai) 'to heal diseases and' is only in traditional manuscripts (TR+Byz)

Textual data: Translators Amalgamated Greek New Testament (STEPBible TAGNT) · CC BY 4.0.

Commentary

Notes on Mark 3:15 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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Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 15. To have power to heal - and to cast out devils] The business of a minister of Christ is,

1st. To preach the Gospel.

2dly. To be the physician of souls. And,

3dly. To wage war with the devil, and destroy his kingdom.

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

John Gill's Exposition

And to have power to heal sicknesses,.... All manner of corporeal diseases that attend men and women:

and to cast out devils; from such who were possessed with them: that is, he chose and appointed them to be his apostles, with a view of conferring such powers upon them hereafter; for as yet, they were not vested with them, nor sent out to exercise them; no, not till near twelve months after.

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

15 And to have power to heal sicknesses, and to cast out devils:

Ver. 15. {See Trapp on "Mat 10:8"} Mallem obedire quam miracula facere, saith Luther. A man may do miracles in Christ’s name, and yet perish. But whoso calleth upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

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.

Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

He gave his apostles the power of curing maladies both of soul and body, and of expelling devils, that they might prove the truth of their doctrines by the authority of miracles. (Bible de Vence)

George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).

Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges

15. [496][497][498][499][500][501] omit θεραπεύειν τὰς νόσους καί.

[496] Codex Sinaiticus. 4th cent. Discovered by Tischendorf in 1859 at the Monastery of St Katharine on Mount Sinai. Now at St Petersburg. The whole Gospel, ending at Mar 16:8. Photographic facsimile, 1911.

[497] Codex Vaticanus. 4th cent., but perhaps a little later than א. In the Vatican Library almost since its foundation by Pope Nicolas V., and one of its greatest treasures. The whole Gospel, ending at Mar 16:8. Photographic facsimile, 1889.

[498] Codex Ephraemi. 5th cent. A palimpsest: the original writing has been partially rubbed out, and the works of Ephraem the Syrian have been written over it; but a great deal of the original writing has been recovered; of Mark we have Mar 1:17 to Mar 6:31, Mar 8:5 to Mar 12:29, Mar 13:19 to Mar 16:20. In the National Library at Paris.

[499] An asterisk denotes that the word is not found elsewhere in N.T., and such words are included in the index, even if there is no note on them in the commentary.

[500] Codex Regius. 8th cent. An important witness. At Paris. Contains Mar 1:1 to Mar 10:15; Mar 10:30 to Mar 15:1; Mar 15:20 to Mar 16:20, but the shorter ending is inserted between Mar 16:8 and Mar 16:9, showing that the scribe preferred it to the longer one.

[501] Codex Sangallensis. 9th or 10th cent. Contains the Gospels nearly complete, with an interlinear Latin translation. The text of Mark is specially good, agreeing often with CL. At St Gall.

15. ἔχειν ἐξουσίαν. The nearest parallel to this in O.T. is 2Ki 2:11; 2Ki 2:15. But here supernatural powers are given to many. Exorcism is again the representative miracle; cf. Mar 1:39, Mar 6:7. “To send them to have authority” is one of Mk’s clumsy expressions; He sent them to cast out demons.

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

15. ἔχειν ἐξουσίαν ἐκβάλλειν—to have power to cast out. This is in the same construction as κηρύσσειν, and denotes one of the objects of sending them forth.

Omit θεραπεύειν τὰς νόσους, καὶ, to heal diseases, and, Tisch. Treg. (Treg. marg.) WH. RV. א BC* L Δ Memph.

With this omission, the casting out of demons is taken as the representative miracle. So frequently.1

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

To have power [εχειν εξουσιαν] . Note that he does not say to preach and to cast out, but to preach and to have authority to cast out. The power of preaching and the power of exorcising were so different that special mention is made of the divine authority with which they would need to be clothed. The power of driving out demons was given that they might apply it in confirmation of their teaching. Compare 16 20.

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

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Mark, in the Gospels, opens this verse with 6 words (6 distinct Greek lemmas). Its most distinctive word is daimónion (“demon”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

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  1. What does “demon” (daimónion) contribute to the verse as a whole?
  2. 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?
  3. Reading how Adam Clarke's Commentary and John Gill's Exposition read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

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