And when it was day, he departed and went into a desert place: and the people sought him, and came unto him, and stayed him, that he should not depart from them.
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Gill's Exposition
And he said unto them,.... In answer to their importunate requests:
I must preach the kingdom of God to other cities also; as well as to Capernaum; and though they did not express their desire of…
Adam Clarke
And the people sought him - Rather, Sought him earnestly. Instead of εζητουν, sought, I read, επεζητουν, earnestly sought. This reading is supported by ABCDFLMS - V, and more than seventy others.…
When Christ was expelled Nazareth, he came to Capernaum, another city of Galilee. The account we have in these verses of his preaching and miracles there we had before, Mar 1:21, etc. Observe,
I. His…
Cambridge Bible
when it was day St Mark (Mar 1:35) uses the expression "rising up exceedingly early in the morning, while it was yet dark." It was His object to escape into silence, and solitude, and prayer, without…
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