Mark 6:46

Mar 6:46 . ἀποταξάμενος , having dismissed them, i.e. , the multitude; late Greek condemned by Phryn., p. 23 ( ἔκφυλον πάνυ ).

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His disciples.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.

(46-52) And when he had sent them away.—See Notes on Mat_14:22-33.

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And when even was come,.... The second evening, and it was properly night:

the ship was in the midst of the sea; of Galilee, about twenty five or thirty furlongs from the shore; see Joh 6:19;

and he alone on the land; upon the mountain. This is observed, partly to show what distress the disciples were in, in the midst of the sea, having a hard gale of wind, and their master not with them; and partly to show that there was no way, humanly speaking, of Christ's getting to the ship, in order to go over; and is an illustration of the following miracle, of walking so many furlongs, as he must, upon the water, in a stormy, blustering night, to get to it.

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46 And when he had sent them away, he departed into a mountain to pray.

Ver. 46. And when they had sent them away] viz. the people, Mar 6:45, and that with tokens of singular good will, as the Greek word αποταξαμενος signifies, and so is used Luk 9:61; Act 18:21.

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Vers. 46, 47. St. Mark is careful, like St. Matthew, to tell us that when the even was come he was alone on the land. Both the evangelists desire to call attention to the fact that, when night came on, the disciples were alone in their boat and Jesus alone on the land. It was nightfall; and St. John informs us that "the sea was rising by reason of a great wind that blew." Then it was that the Lord left his place of prayer on the mountain, and walked upon the sea, that he might succor his disciples now distressed by the storm. It would appear that our Lord had been obliged to use a little pressure to induce his disciples to leave him: "He constrained them (hnagkase tou). And when he had sent them away (apotaxamenov) more literally, had taken leave of them, that is, the multitude he departed into a mountain (eiv to orov); literally, into the mountain; that is, the high table-land at the foot of which the multitude had been fed. Towards the north-east of the Sea of Galilee the land rises rapidly from the shore. To pray (proseuxasyai).This is a very full word, implying the outpouring of the heart to God. Our Lord did this that he might teach us in our prayers to shun the crowd, and to pray in silence and in secret, with collected mind. There is here, too, a special example for the clergy, namely, this: that when they have preached they should go apart and pray that God would make effectual that which they have delivered; that he would himself give the increase where they have planted and watered, and renew their spiritual strength, that they may return again to their labour refreshed by communion with him.

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Matt. xiv, 23; John vi, 15.

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46. ἀποταξάμενος αὐτοῖς. After He had taken leave of them (R.V.), parting from them in a friendly way (Luk 9:61; Act 18:21). Mt. loses this point, and Beza gives just the wrong shade of meaning, quum amandasset eos, which implies dismissing with contempt. Vulg. points to a text with ἀπολύσας αὐτούς, dum dimitteret populum. Cum dimisisset eos. Elsewhere Vulg. renders ἀποτάσσομαι vale facio or renuncio.

εἰς τὸ ὄρος προσεύξασθαι. The human nature of our Lord is again conspicuous, not merely in His praying, but in His seeking solitude at sunset on the mountain side as a help to prayer, σχολῆς γὰρ καὶ ἀταραξίας δεῖται ἡ προσευχή (Theoph.). Jn mentions these accessories, but not the prayer. On two other occasions Mk records that Christ prayed, the first day’s work at Capernaum (Mar 1:35) and the last night’s Agony (Mar 14:35).

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46.] ἀποταξάμ. in this sense belongs to later Greek: Phrynichus says, ed. Lob. p. 24, ἀποτάσσομαί σοι, ἔκφυλον πάνυ. χρὴ γὰρ λέγειν, ἀσπάζομαί σε. See Lobeck’s note.

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46. ἀποταξάμενος αὐτοῖς—having taken leave of them. The verb is not used in this sense in the earlier Greek writers, who said, instead, ἀσπάζεσθαι. τὸ ὄρος—the mountain, viz. in that place. προσεύξασθαι—to pray. Mt. adds to this only the scene in Gethsemane as an occasion when Jesus retired to pray. This Gospel gives, besides these two, the occasion of his first day’s work in Capernaum (ch. 1:35). Lk. gives several others. The two mentioned in Mt. and the three of Mk. were crises in his life, two of them growing out of a sudden access of popularity, and the third out of the impending tragedy of his life. Prayer with Jesus was real, growing out of his human needs.

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When he had sent them away [αποταξαμενος] . Rev., more correctly, after he had taken leave. Unclassical, and used in this sense only in later Greek. So in Luk 9:61; Act 18:18; 2Co 2:13.

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