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Mr 10:1-12.

FINAL DEPARTURE FROM GALILEE--DIVORCE. ( =

Mt 19:1-12; Lu 9:51).

See on

Mt 19:1-12.

Mr 10:13-16.

LITTLE CHILDREN BROUGHT TO CHRIST. ( =

Mt 19:13-15; Lu 18:15-17).

See on

Lu 18:15-17.

Mr 10:17-31.

THE RICH YOUNG RULER. ( =

Mt 19:16-30; Lu 18:18-30).

See on

Lu 18:18-30.

Mr 10:32-45.

THIRD EXPLICIT AND STILL FULLER ANNOUNCEMENT OF HIS APPROACHING SUFFERINGS, DEATH, AND RESURRECTION--THE AMBITIOUS REQUEST OF JAMES AND JOHN, AND THE REPLY. ( =

Mt 20:17-28; Lu 18:31-34).

Third Announcement of His approaching Sufferings, Death, and Resurrection

(Mr 10:32-34).

32. And they were in the way--on the road.

going up to Jerusalem--in Perea, and probably somewhere between Ephraim and Jericho, on the farther side of the Jordan, and to the northeast of Jerusalem.

and Jesus went before them--as GROTIUS says, in the style of an intrepid Leader.

and they were amazed--or "struck with astonishment" at His courage in advancing to certain death.

and as they followed, they were afraid--for their own safety. These artless, lifelike touches--not only from an eye-witness, but one whom the noble carriage of the Master struck with wonder and awe--are peculiar to Mark, and give the second Gospel a charm all its own; making us feel as if we ourselves were in the midst of the scenes it describes. Well might the poet exclaim:

"The Saviour, what a noble flame

Was kindled in His breast,

When, hasting to Jerusalem,

He march'd before the rest!"

COWPER

And he took again the twelve--referring to His previous announcements on this sad subject.

and began to tell them what things should happen unto him--"were going to befall Him." The word expresses something already begun but not brought to a head, rather than something wholly future.

33. Saying, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem--for the last time, and--"all things that are written by the prophets concerning the Son of man shall be accomplished"

(Lu 18:31).

the Son of man shall be delivered unto the chief priests and unto the scribes; and they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him to the Gentiles--This is the first express statement that the Gentiles would combine with the Jews in His death; the two grand divisions of the human race for whom He died thus taking part in crucifying the Lord of Glory, as WEBSTER and WILKINSON observe.

34. And they shall mock him, and shall scourge him, and shall spit upon him, and shall kill him: and the third day he shall rise again--Singularly explicit as this announcement was, Luke

(Lu 18:34)

says "they understood none of these things; and this saying was hid from them, neither knew they the things which were spoken." The meaning of the words they could be at no loss to understand, but their import in relation to His Messianic kingdom they could not penetrate; the whole prediction being right in the teeth of their preconceived notions. That they should have clung so tenaciously to the popular notion of an "unsuffering" Messiah, may surprise us; but it gives inexpressible weight to their after-testimony to a suffering and dying Saviour.

Ambitious Request of James and John--The Reply

(Mr 10:35-45).

35. And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, come unto him, saying--Matthew

(Mt 20:20)

says their "mother came to Him with her sons, worshipping Him and desiring," &c. (Compare

Mt 27:56, with Mr 15:40).

Salome was her name

(Mr 16:1).

We cannot be sure with which of the parties the movement originated; but as our Lord, even in Matthew's account, addresses Himself to James and John, taking no account of the mother, it is likely the mother was merely set on by them. The thought was doubtless suggested to her sons by the recent promise to the Twelve of "thrones to sit on, when the Son of man should sit on the throne of His glory"

(Mt 19:28);

but after the reproof so lately given them

(Mr 9:33,

&c.) they get their mother to speak for them.

Master, we would that thou shouldest do for us whatsoever we shall desire--thus cautiously approaching the subject.

36. And he said unto them, What would ye that I should do for you?--Though well aware what was in their mind and their mother's, our Lord will have the unseemly petition uttered before all.