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Selected Verse: Mark 3:10 - King James
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Mr 3:10 |
King James |
For he had healed many; insomuch that they pressed upon him for to touch him, as many as had plagues. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
As many as had plagues - As many as had diseases or maladies of body or mind. The word plague, now confined to the pestilence, does not express the meaning of the original, and tends to mislead. |
Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886] |
Pressed upon (ἐπιπίπτειν)
Lit., fell upon.
Plagues (μάστιγας)
Lit., scourges. Compare Act 22:24; Heb 11:36. Our word plague is from πληγή, Latin plaga, meaning a blow. Pestilence or disease is thus regarded as a stroke from a divine hand. Πληγή is used in classical Greek in this metaphorical sense. Thus Sophocles, "Ajax," 270: "I fear that a calamity (πληγή) is really come from heaven (θεοῦ, god)." So of war. Aeschylus, "Persae," 251: "O Persian land, how hath the abundant prosperity been destroyed by a single blow (ἐν μιᾷ πληγῇ). The word here, scourges, carries the same idea. |
Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
Plagues or scourges (so the Greek word properly means) seem to be those very painful or afflictive disorders which were frequently sent, or at least permitted of God, as a scourge or punishment of sin. |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
They pressed upon him - Rushed upon him, επιπιπτειν - through eagerness to have their spiritual and bodily maladies immediately removed.
Plagues - Rather disorders, μαϚιγας; properly such disorders as were inflicted by the Lord. The word plague also tends to mislead. |
36 And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:
24 The chief captain commanded him to be brought into the castle, and bade that he should be examined by scourging; that he might know wherefore they cried so against him.