The Gospel According to Saint Mark: With Introduction and Notes (Classic Reprint) - Paperback

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This Commentary might easily have been made into a large volume in any one or more of the following ways. It might have included quotations from preceding commentaries, with an examination of opinions held by their authors. For my part I find such commentaries on the Synoptic Gospels as adopt this Talmudic method so tedious that I have purposely abstained from adding another to their number. Or again, long notes might have been written describing the civil and religious institutions of the land of Palestine in Christ's time, or discussing the sites of places mentioned in the Gospel. But admirable articles on these subjects may be found in easily accessible Bible Dictionaries, and the overloading of a Commentary with material of this sort helps to turn the mind of a reader from that which ought to be his main effort in reading a Gospel, viz. to grip the conception of Christ's Person and work which the Evangelist set out to convey when he wrote his Gospel.

Or lastly, much space might have been devoted to the consideration in detail of the so-called 'historical value' of each saying and incident, and of rationalistic explanations of them.

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