Mark 9:40 BSB — MannaFest

Mark 9:40

For whoever is not against us is for us.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

For he that is not against us is for us.

KJV

For he that is not against us is on our part.

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Commentary

1 voice

Pseudo-Chrysostom

Catena Aurea by Aquinas (500)

(Vict. Ant. e Cat. in Marc.) Or else, this is said of those who believe on Him, but nevertheless do not follow Him from the looseness of their lives. Again, it is said of devils, who try to separate all from God, and to disperse His congregation.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

For he that is not against us, is on our part. Many copies read, "he that is not against you, is for you"; as this man; he was not against either Christ, or his disciples; he was doing the same work, promoting the same interest, and destroying the kingdom of Satan: and therefore, though he did not follow them, and had not his commission immediately from Christ; yet, inasmuch as he was opposing the same common enemy, and did nothing against them, he ought to be reckoned as one for them, and on their side.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

He that is not against us, is on our part - Or rather, Whosoever is not against You, is for You. Instead of ἡμων, us, I would read ὑμων, you, on the authority of ADSHV, upwards of forty others, Syriac, Armenian, Persic, Coptic, Ethiopic, Gothic, Slavonic, Vulgate, Itala, Victor, and Opt. This reading is more consistent with the context - He followed not us - well, he is not against You; and he who is not against you, in such a work, may be fairly presumed to be on your side.

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Mark (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition) (1857)

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Original language & word study

9 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ὃς	hos	Who[ever]	G3739 →
γὰρ	gar	for	G1063 →
οὐκ	ouk	not	G3756 →
ἔστιν	estin	is	G1510 →
καθ᾽	kath᾽	against	G2596 →
ἡμῶν	hēmōn	us	G3165 →
ὑπὲρ	huper	for	G5228 →
ἡμῶν	hēmōn	us	G3165 →
ἐστιν.	estin	is.	G1510 →

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

G5228huperfor155×

The walk

The walk7

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
Matthew 12:30
He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gather with Me scatters.
leads to
- Luke 9:50
  “Do not stop him,” Jesus replied, “for whoever is not against you is for you.”
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Luke 11:23
  He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gather with Me scatters.
- Joshua 24:15
  But if it is unpleasing in your sight to serve the LORD, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods…
- 1 John 2:19
  They went out from us, but they did not belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But their departure made it clear that none of…
- Matthew 6:24
  No one can serve two masters: Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and…
Through
Luke 11:23
He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gather with Me scatters.
leads to
- Matthew 12:30
  He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gather with Me scatters.
- Revelation 3:15–16
  I know your deeds; you are neither cold nor hot. How I wish you were one or the other!