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Selected Verse: Mark 6:29 - King James
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Mr 6:29 |
King James |
And when his disciples heard of it, they came and took up his corpse, and laid it in a tomb. |
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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
And when his disciples heard of it--that is, the Baptist's own disciples.
they came and took up his corpse, and laid it in a tomb--"and went and told Jesus" (Mat 14:12). If these disciples had, up to this time, stood apart from Him, as adherents of John (Mat 11:2), perhaps they now came to Jesus, not without some secret reflection on Him for His seeming neglect of their master; but perhaps, too, as orphans, to cast in their lot henceforth with the Lord's disciples. How Jesus felt, or what He said, on receiving this intelligence, is not recorded; but He of whom it was said, as He stood by the grave of His friend Lazarus, "Jesus wept," was not likely to receive such intelligence without deep emotion. And one reason why He might not be unwilling that a small body of John's disciples should cling to him to the last, might be to provide some attached friends who should do for his precious body, on a small scale, what was afterwards to be done for His own. |
Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886] |
Corpse
See on Mat 24:28.
Stier ("Words of Jesus") says of Herod' "This man, whose inner life was burnt out; who was made up of contradictions, speaking of his kingdom like Ahasuerus, and yet the slave of his Jezebel; willingly hearing the prophet, and unwillingly killing him; who will be a Sadducee, and yet thinks of a resurrection; who has a superstitious fear of the Lord Jesus, and yet a curiosity to see him." |
2 Now when John had heard in the prison the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples,
12 And his disciples came, and took up the body, and buried it, and went and told Jesus.
28 For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.