Mark 11:26
in Mark 11BSB
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But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses.
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This verse in Mark 11
Commentary
7 notes on this verseAt the end of this verse, the 7th and 8th verses of Matthew 7. Ask and ye shall receive, etc., are added by M, and sixteen other MSS. The 26th verse is wanting in BLS, seven others, some editions, the Coptic, one Itala, and Theophylact.
This site's exposition
when you stand to pray
on Mark 11:25-26
Jesus ties answered prayer to a forgiving heart, the same condition the Lord's Prayer names at Matthew 6:12. Verse 26 is missing from some of the oldest manuscripts and is widely judged to have been drawn in from the Matthew parallel.
The record, by era
The Medieval Church3 voices
And do you wish to receive what you ask in yet another way? Forgive your brother if he has sinned in anything against you. See how easy it is to receive the gift of God!
Again, would you in another way receive what you ask for? Forgive your brother, if he has in any way sinned against you; this is also what is added: And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.
Mark has, as he is wont, expressed seven verses of the Lord's prayer in one prayer. But what can he, whose sins are all forgiven, require more, save that he may persevere in what has been granted unto him.
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
When ye stand praying, forgive. Note, Standing is no improper posture for prayer; it was generally used among the Jews; hence they called their prayers, their standings; when they would say how the world was kept up by prayer, they expressed it thus, Stationibus stat mundus--The world is held up by standings.
But if ye do not forgive,....
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About Mark
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible; Pseudo-Jerome, Catena Aurea by Aquinas; Theophylact of Ohrid, Commentary on Mark and Theophylact of Ohrid, Catena Aurea by Aquinas.