Mark 1:38 BSB — MannaFest

Mark 1:38

But Jesus answered, “Let us go on to the neighboring towns so I can preach there as well, for that is why I have come.”

BSB

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ASV

And he saith unto them, Let us go elsewhere into the next towns, that I may preach there also; for to this end came I forth.

KJV

And he said unto them, Let us go into the next towns, that I may preach there also: for therefore came I forth.

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Commentary

3 voices

Theophylact of Ohrid

Commentary on Mark (1107)

Furthermore, when the crowd sought Him and greatly desired Him, He does not give Himself over to them, although He receives this with goodwill, but goes also to others who were in need of healing and instruction. For one must not confine the work of …

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

Pseudo-Chrysostom

Catena Aurea by Aquinas (500)

(Vict. Ant. e Cat. in Marc.) Luke however says, that crowds came to Christ, and spoke what Mark here relates that the Apostles said, adding, And when they came to him, they said to him, All seek thee. (Luke 4:42) But they do not contradict each other; for Christ received after the Apostles the multitude, breathlessly anxious to embrace His feet. He received them willingly, but chose to dismiss them, that the rest also might be partakers of His doctrine, as He was not to remain long in the world.

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

And he said unto them, let us go into the next towns,.... Instead of returning with his disciples to Capernaum, as they expected he would, and especially since there was such a concourse of people got together, he proposes to go to "the next towns"; or "village cities"; towns that were neither villages, nor cities, but between both, as the word signifies: hence the Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Persic versions render it, "villages and cities": and it designs such towns in which there were synagogues. The Jews distinguish between walled towns, villages, and large cities (r).

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

The next towns - Κωμοπολεις properly signifies such towns as resembled cities for magnitude and number of inhabitants, but which were not walled as were cities. The Codex Bezae, most of the versions, and all the Itala, read, Let us go into the neighboring villages, And Into The Cities. For therefore came I forth - Εις τουτο, for this purpose am I come forth - to preach the Gospel to every creature, that all might hear, and fear, and return unto the Lord.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Compare Joh 16:28, "I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world," &c.--another proof, by the way, that the lofty phraseology of the Fourth Gospel was not unknown to the authors of the others, though their design and point of view are different.

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Original language & word study

17 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Καὶ	Kai	And	G2532 →
λέγει	legei	He says	G3004 →
αὐτοῖς·	autois	to them;	G846 →
ἄγωμεν	agōmen	let us go	G71 →
ἀλλαχοῦ	allachou	another way	G237 →
εἰς	eis	into	G1519 →
τὰς	tas	those [places] which	G3588 →
ἐχομένας	echomenas	are having	G2192 →
κωμοπόλεις	kōmopoleis	villages	G2969 →
ἵνα	ina	so that	G2443 →
καὶ	kai	also	G2532 →
ἐκεῖ	ekei	there	G1563 →
κηρύξω·	kēruxō	I may preach;	G2784 →
εἰς	eis	for	G1519 →
τοῦτο	touto	this	G3778 →
γὰρ	gar	therefore	G1063 →
ἐξῆλθον.¶	exēlthon	I have come forth.	G1831 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
John 17:8
For I have given them the words You gave Me, and they have received them. They knew with certainty that I came from You, and they believed that You sent Me.
leads to
- John 17:14
  I have given them Your word and the world has hated them; for they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
- John 15:15
  No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything I have learned from My Father I have…
- John 16:30
  Now we understand that You know all things and that You have no need for anyone to question You. Because of this, we believe that You came from God.”
- 1 Thessalonians 2:13
  And we continually thank God because, when you received the word of God that you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as the true word of God—the…
- John 16:27
  For the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and have believed that I came from God.
Through
Luke 4:43
But Jesus told them, “I must preach the good news of the kingdom of God to the other towns as well, because that is why I was sent.”
leads to
- Mark 1:38–39
  But Jesus answered, “Let us go on to the neighboring towns so I can preach there as well, for that is why I have come.”
- 2 Timothy 4:2
  Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and encourage with every form of patient instruction.
Through
John 16:28
I came from the Father and entered the world. In turn, I will leave the world and go to the Father.”
leads to
- John 13:1
  It was now just before the Passover Feast, and Jesus knew that His hour had come to leave this world and return to the Father. Having loved His own who were in the world,…

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Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Mark