Mar 9:30-33, Luk 9:43-45 | Barnes | STEP

Mark 9:30-33

Verses 30-32. Mt 17:22,23 Verse 31. Is delivered. Is given to me to make atonement by his sufferings and death, and will in due time be taken and killed. Verse 32.

(n) "ask him" Jn 16:19 Verse 33. Mt 18:1, and Mt 18:2-6

(o) "And he came" Mt 18:1, Lk 9:46, 22:24

Luke 9:43-45

Verse 43.

(l) "amazed" Ps 139:14, Zech 8:6 Verse 44. Let these sayings. Probably this refers to the sayings of the people, who had seen his miracles, and who on that account had praised and glorified God. On that ground they had acknowledged him to be the Christ. As if he had said, "I am about to die. You will then be disconsolate, and perhaps doubtful about my being the Christ. Then do you remember these miracles, and the confessions of the people--the evidence which I gave you that I was from God." Or it may mean, "Remember that I am about to die, and let my sayings in regard to that sink down into your hearts, for it is a most important event; and you will have need of remembering, when it takes place, that I told you of it." This last interpretation, however, does not agree as well with the Greek as the former.

(m) "for the Son of man" Mt 17:22 Verse 45. It was hid from them. They had imbibed the common notions of the Jews that he was to be a prince and a conqueror, to deliver the nation. They could not understand how that could be, if he was soon to be delivered into the hands of his enemies to die. In this way it was hid from them--not by God, but by their previous false belief. And from this we may learn that the plainest truths of the Bible are unintelligible to many because they have embraced some belief or opinion before which is erroneous, and which they are unwilling to abandon. The proper way of reading the Bible is to lay aside all previous opinions and submit entirely to God. The apostles should have supposed that their previous notions of the Messiah were wrong, and should have renounced them. They should have believed that what Jesus then said was consistent with his being the Christ. So we should believe that all that God says is consistent with truth, and should forsake all other opinions.

(o) "But they understood not" Mar 9:32, Lk 2:50, 18:34