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45 verses · Mark · AD 55 to 65 · The Gospels

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Mark 1— Greek word study

How to read a word below: the Greekword, then how it sounds, then what it means, then its number in Strong’s concordance, a widely used lookup this site follows (H for Hebrew and Aramaic, G for Greek). Square brackets hold a word the English supplies that the Greek does not, angle brackets mark the Greek’s own grammatical elements that English renders as separate words, and the mark ס or פ is where the Hebrew manuscripts end a paragraph.

Mark 1:41· Greek and glosses: STEP Bible

Note on the text · Mark 1:41

Nearly every manuscript says Jesus was moved with compassion toward the leper; a few say he was moved with anger, and the rule that the harder reading is usually original points, uncomfortably, toward anger.

The witnesses, and what each reads here
  • Codex Sinaiticus, Codex Vaticanus, Codex Alexandrinus, and the Byzantine majority · 4th, 15th centuries*splanchnistheis*, "moved with compassion."
  • Codex Bezae and a small group of Old Latin manuscripts · 5th century and later, reflecting an older Western text*orgistheis*, "moved with anger" or "indignant."
  • Matthew 8:3 and Luke 5:13, telling the same story · All periodsNo emotion word at all. Both later Gospels drop whatever Mark had, which is easier to explain if Mark's word was startling than if it was tender.
  • Later Greek and Syriac tradition · 5th century onwardCompassion, essentially without exception.
What the manuscripts read here →
καὶkaiAndG2532σπλαγχνισθεὶςsplagchnistheishaving compassionG4697ἐκτείναςekteinashaving stretched outG1614τὴνtentheG3588χεῖραcheirahandG5495αὐτοῦautouof HimG846ἥψατοhepsatoHe touched himG681καὶkaiandG2532λέγειlegeisaysG3004αὐτῷ·autoto him;G846θέλω,theloI am willing,G2309καθαρίσθητι.katharisthetido be cleansed.G2511
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