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Mark 8:37

Mark 8:37
Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? To deliver it out of its miserable state and condition; all the riches of the world, and the whole world itself, are not an equivalent to it, or a…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Mark 8:27-38

See this passage illustrated in the notes at Mat. 16:13-28. Mar 8:32 He spake that saying openly - With boldness or confidence, or without parables or figures, so that there could be no possibility of…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Mark 8:27-38

We have read a great deal of the doctrine Christ preached, and the miracles he wrought, which were many, and strange, and well-attested, of various kinds, and wrought in several places, to the…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

in exchange i. e. to purchase back. By soul here is meant "life" in the higher sense. The "price" which the earthly-minded man gives for the world is his soul. But after having laid that down as the…

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