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<P><FONT SIZE=+3>Mark</FONT></P>
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<LI><A HREF="MHC41001.HTM">Chapter 1</A>
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<LI><A HREF="MHC41002.HTM">Chapter 2</A>
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<LI><A HREF="MHC41003.HTM">Chapter 3</A>
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<LI><A HREF="MHC41004.HTM">Chapter 4</A>
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<LI><A HREF="MHC41005.HTM">Chapter 5</A>
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<LI><A HREF="MHC41006.HTM">Chapter 6</A>
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<LI><A HREF="MHC41007.HTM">Chapter 7</A>
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<LI><A HREF="MHC41008.HTM">Chapter 8</A>
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<LI><A HREF="MHC41009.HTM">Chapter 9</A>
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<LI><A HREF="MHC41010.HTM">Chapter 10</A>
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<LI><A HREF="MHC41011.HTM">Chapter 11</A>
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<LI><A HREF="MHC41012.HTM">Chapter 12</A>
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<LI><A HREF="MHC41013.HTM">Chapter 13</A>
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<LI><A HREF="MHC41014.HTM">Chapter 14</A>
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<LI><A HREF="MHC41015.HTM">Chapter 15</A>
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<LI><A HREF="MHC41016.HTM">Chapter 16</A>
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<P><B>AN</B></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=+2>EXPOSITION,</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=+1>W I T H P R A C T I C A L O B S E R V A T I O N S,</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=-1>OF THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=+3><B>S T. M A R K.</B></FONT>
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W<FONT SIZE=-1>E</FONT> have heard the evidence given in by the first
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witness to the doctrine and miracles of our Lord Jesus; and now here is
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another witness produced, who calls for our attention. The second
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<I>living creature</I> saith, <I>Come, and see,</I>
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Re+6:3">Rev. vi. 3</A>.
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Now let us enquire a little,</P>
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I. Concerning <I>this witness.</I> His name is <I>Mark. Marcus</I> was
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a Roman name, and a very common one, and yet we have no reason to
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think, but that he was by birth a Jew; but as Saul, when he went among
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the nations, took the Roman name of <I>Paul,</I> so he of <I>Mark,</I>
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his Jewish name perhaps being <I>Mardocai;</I> so Grotius. We read of
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John whose surname was <I>Mark,</I> sister's son to Barnabas, whom Paul
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was displeased with
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(<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Ac+15:37,38">Acts xv. 37, 38</A>),
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but afterward had a great kindness for, and not only ordered the
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churches to receive him
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(<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Col+4:10">Col. iv. 10</A>),
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but sent for him to be his assistant, with this encomium, <I>He is
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profitable to me for the ministry</I>
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(<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=2Ti+4:11">2 Tim. iv. 11</A>);
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and he reckons him among his fellow-labourers,
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Philem+1:24">Philemon 24</A>.
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We read of Marcus whom Peter calls his <I>son,</I> he having been an
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instrument of his conversion
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(<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=1Pe+5:13">1 Pet. v. 13</A>);
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whether that was the same with the other, and, if not, which of them
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was the penman of this gospel, is altogether uncertain. It is a
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tradition very current among the ancients, that St. Mark wrote this
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gospel under the direction of St. Peter, and that it was confirmed by
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his authority; so Hieron. Catal. Script. Eccles. <I>Marcus discipulus
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et interpres Petri, juxta quod Petrum referentem audierat, legatus Roma
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à fratribus, breve scripsit evangelium--Mark, the disciple and
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interpreter of Peter, being sent from Rome by the brethren, wrote a
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concise gospel;</I> and Tertullian saith (Adv. Marcion. lib. 4, cap.
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5), <I>Marcus quod edidit, Petri affirmetur, cujus interpres
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Marcus--Mark, the interpreter of Peter, delivered in writing the things
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which had been preached by Peter.</I> But as Dr. Whitby very well
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suggests, Why should we have recourse to the authority of Peter for the
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support of this gospel, or say with St. Jerome that Peter approved of
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it and recommended it by his authority to the church to be read, when,
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though it is true Mark was no apostle, yet we have all the reason in
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the world to think that both he and Luke were of the number of the
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seventy disciples, who <I>companied with the apostles all along</I>
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(<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Ac+1:21">Acts i. 21</A>),
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who had a commission like that of the apostles
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(<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Lu+10:19,Mk+16:18">Luke x. 19,
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compared with Mark xvi. 18</A>),
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and who, it is highly probable, received the Holy Ghost when they did
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(<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Ac+1:15,2:1-4">Acts i. 15; ii. 1-4</A>),
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so that it is no diminution at all to the validity or value of this
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gospel, that Mark was not one of the twelve, as Matthew and John were?
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St. Jerome saith that, after the writing of this gospel, he went into
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Egypt, and was the first that preached the gospel at Alexandria, where
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he founded a church, to which he was a great example of holy living.
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<I>Constituit ecclesiam tantâ doctrinâ et vitæ
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continentiâ ut omnes sectatores Christi ad exemplum sui
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cogeret--He so adorned, by his doctrine and his life, the church which
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he founded, that his example influenced all the followers of
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Christ.</I></P>
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II. Concerning <I>this testimony.</I> Mark's gospel,
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1. Is but short, much shorter than Matthew's, not giving so full an
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account of Christ's sermons as that did, but insisting chiefly on his
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miracles.
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2. It is very much a repetition of what we had in Matthew; many
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remarkable circumstances being added to the stories there related, but
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not many new matters. When many witnesses are called to prove the same
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fact, upon which a judgment is to be given, it is not thought
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<I>tedious,</I> but highly <I>necessary,</I> that they should each of
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them relate it in their own words, again and again, that by the
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agreement of the testimony the thing may be established; and therefore
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we must not think this book of scripture needless, for it is written
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not only to confirm our belief that <I>Jesus is the Christ the Son of
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God,</I> but to put us in mind of things which we have read in the
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foregoing gospel, that we may <I>give the more earnest heed to
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them,</I> lest at any time we let them slip; and even <I>pure minds</I>
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have need to be <I>thus stirred up by way of remembrance.</I> It was
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fit that such great things as these should be spoken and written, once,
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yea twice, because man is so <I>unapt</I> to <I>perceive</I> them, and
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so <I>apt</I> to <I>forget</I> them. There is no ground for the
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tradition, that this gospel was written first in Latin, though it was
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written at Rome; it was written in Greek, as was St. Paul's epistle to
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the Romans, the Greek being the more universal language.</P>
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