Mark 6

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1Jesus left there and went to his hometown, accompanied by his disciples.

2When the Sabbath came, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were amazed. “Where did this man get these things?” they asked. “What's this wisdom that has been given him, that he even does miracles!

3Isn't this the carpenter? Isn't this Mary's son and the brother of James, Joseph, Judas and Simon? Aren't his sisters here with us?” And they took offense at him.

4Jesus said to them, “Only in his hometown, among his relatives and in his own house is a prophet without honor.”

5He could not do any miracles there, except lay his hands on a few sick people and heal them.

6And he was amazed at their lack of faith. Then Jesus went around teaching from village to village.

7Calling the Twelve to him, he sent them out two by two and gave them authority over evil spirits.

8These were his instructions: “Take nothing for the journey except a staff–no bread, no bag, no money in your belts.

9Wear sandals but not an extra tunic.

10Whenever you enter a house, stay there until you leave that town.

11And if any place will not welcome you or listen to you, shake the dust off your feet when you leave, as a testimony against them.”

12They went out and preached that people should repent.

13They drove out many demons and anointed many sick people with oil and healed them.

14King Herod heard about this, for Jesus' name had become well known. Some were saying, “John the Baptist has been raised from the dead, and that is why miraculous powers are at work in him.”

15Others said, “He is Elijah.” And still others claimed, “He is a prophet, like one of the prophets of long ago.”

16But when Herod heard this, he said, “John, the man I beheaded, has been raised from the dead!”

17For Herod himself had given orders to have John arrested, and he had him bound and put in prison. He did this because of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, whom he had married.

18For John had been saying to Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother's wife.”

19So Herodias nursed a grudge against John and wanted to kill him. But she was not able to,

20because Herod feared John and protected him, knowing him to be a righteous and holy man. When Herod heard John, he was greatly puzzled; yet he liked to listen to him.

21Finally the opportune time came. On his birthday Herod gave a banquet for his high officials and military commanders and the leading men of Galilee.

22When the daughter of Herodias came in and danced, she pleased Herod and his dinner guests. The king said to the girl, “Ask me for anything you want, and I'll give it to you.”

23And he promised her with an oath, “Whatever you ask I will give you, up to half my kingdom.”

24She went out and said to her mother, “What shall I ask for?” “The head of John the Baptist,” she answered.

25At once the girl hurried in to the king with the request: “I want you to give me right now the head of John the Baptist on a platter.”

26The king was greatly distressed, but because of his oaths and his dinner guests, he did not want to refuse her.

27So he immediately sent an executioner with orders to bring John's head. The man went, beheaded John in the prison,

28and brought back his head on a platter. He presented it to the girl, and she gave it to her mother.

29On hearing of this, John's disciples came and took his body and laid it in a tomb.

30The apostles gathered around Jesus and reported to him all they had done and taught.

31Then, because so many people were coming and going that they did not even have a chance to eat, he said to them, “Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest.”

32So they went away by themselves in a boat to a solitary place.

33But many who saw them leaving recognized them and ran on foot from all the towns and got there ahead of them.

34When Jesus landed and saw a large crowd, he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. So he began teaching them many things.

35By this time it was late in the day, so his disciples came to him. “This is a remote place,” they said, “and it's already very late.

36Send the people away so they can go to the surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselves something to eat.”

37But he answered, “You give them something to eat.” They said to him, “That would take eight months of a man's wages! Are we to go and spend that much on bread and give it to them to eat?”

38“How many loaves do you have?” he asked. “Go and see.” When they found out, they said, “Five–and two fish.”

39Then Jesus directed them to have all the people sit down in groups on the green grass.

40So they sat down in groups of hundreds and fifties.

41Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke the loaves. Then he gave them to his disciples to set before the people. He also divided the two fish among them all.

42They all ate and were satisfied,

43and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces of bread and fish.

44The number of the men who had eaten was five thousand.

45Immediately Jesus made his disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of him to Bethsaida, while he dismissed the crowd.

46After leaving them, he went up on a mountainside to pray.

47When evening came, the boat was in the middle of the lake, and he was alone on land.

48He saw the disciples straining at the oars, because the wind was against them. About the fourth watch of the night he went out to them, walking on the lake. He was about to pass by them,

49but when they saw him walking on the lake, they thought he was a ghost. They cried out,

50because they all saw him and were terrified. Immediately he spoke to them and said, “Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid.”

51Then he climbed into the boat with them, and the wind died down. They were completely amazed,

52for they had not understood about the loaves; their hearts were hardened.

53When they had crossed over, they landed at Gennesaret and anchored there.

54As soon as they got out of the boat, people recognized Jesus.

55They ran throughout that whole region and carried the sick on mats to wherever they heard he was.

56And wherever he went–into villages, towns or countryside–they placed the sick in the marketplaces. They begged him to let them touch even the edge of his cloak, and all who touched him were healed.

Commentary

6:1-6 Our Lord's countrymen tried to prejudice the minds of people against him. Is not this the carpenter? Our Lord Jesus probably had worked in that business with his father. He thus put honour upon mechanics, and encouraged all persons who eat by the labour of their hands. It becomes the followers of Christ to content themselves with the satisfaction of doing good, although they are denied the praise of it. How much did these Nazarenes lose by obstinate prejudices against Jesus! May Divine grace deliver us from that unbelief, which renders Christ a savour of death, rather than of life to the soul. Let us, like our Master, go and teach cottages and peasants the way of salvation.

"\nAnd when the sabbath day was come,.... For it seems that it was on a weekday, or on one of the common days of the week, that he entered into the city, where he remained without making himself known, till the sabbath day came: and then\n\nhe began to teach in the synagogue; that is, at Nazareth; where he expounded the law and the prophets, and preached the Gospel:\n\nand many hearing [him] were astonished. The Vulgate Latin adds, "at his doctrine"; and so it is read in Beza's most ancient copy:\n\nsaying, from whence hath this man these things? This skill of explaining Scripture, this doctrine which he teaches, and these miracles he is said to work? This question they the rather put, because they had known him from the beginning: he had lived long among them, and they knew he had not learnt of men, and therefore wondered how he came by such things as these:\n\nand what wisdom is this which is given to him, that even such mighty works are wrought by his hands? which were but the other day employed in servile work, and mechanical operations.\n\n\n "

"\nIs not this the carpenter?.... Some copies read, "the carpenter's son", as in Mt 13:55 and so the Arabic and Ethiopic versions; but all the ancient copies, Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Persic versions, read "the carpenter": such may Christ be reasonably thought to be, since his father was; and which business he might follow, partly through the meanness and poverty of his parents; and partly that he might set an example of industry and diligence; and chiefly to bear that part of the first Adam's curse, which was to eat his bread with the sweat of his brow: nor ought this to have been objected to him by the Jews, with whom it was usual for their greatest doctors and Rabbins to be of some trade or secular employment; so R. Jochanan was a shoemaker {z} R. Isaac was a blacksmith {a}, R. Juda was a tailor {b}, Abba Saul and R. Jochanan, were undertakers for funerals {c}; R. Simeon was a seller of cotton {d}, R. Nehemiah was a ditcher {e}, R. Jose bar Chelphetha was a skinner {f}; and others of them were of other trades, and some exceeding mean: the famous R. Hillell was a hewer of wood, and Carna, a judge in Israel, was a drawer of water {g}; and so Maimonides says,\n\n"the great wise men of Israel were some of them hewers of wood and drawers of water {h}.''\n\nThey say,\n\n"a man is obliged to learn his son an honest and easy trade {i}:''\n\nthere are some businesses they except against {k}, but this of a carpenter is not one; yea, they say,\n\n"if a man does not teach his son a trade, it is all one as if he taught him thievery {l}.''\n\nNor did they think it at all inconsistent with learning; for they have a saying {m}, that\n\n"beautiful is the learning of the law, along with a trade.''\n\nThe Jews ought not to have flouted Christ with this trade of a carpenter, since, according to them, it was necessary that a carpenter, in some cases, should be a regular priest; as in repairing of the temple, especially the holy of holies. So says Maimonides {n};\n\n"there was a trap door, or an open place in the floor of the chamber, open to the holy of holies, that workmen might enter thereby into the holy of holies, when there was a necessity of repairing any thing; and since we make mention of workmen, it may be observed here, when there is need of building in the midst of the temple, great care should be taken, \u05e9\u05d9\u05d4\u05d9\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d0\u05d5\u05de\u05df \u05db\u05d4\u05df \u05db\u05e9\u05e8, "that the workman, or carpenter, be a right priest".''\n\nYea, they expressly say, that the Messiah is one of the four carpenters in Zec 1:20. "And the Lord showed me four carpenters"; they ask {o},\n\n""who are the four carpenters?" Says R. Chana bar Bizna, says R. Simeon the saint, Messiah the son of David, Messiah the son of Joseph, and Elijah, and a priest of righteousness.''\n\nThis is with some variation elsewhere expressed thus {p},\n\n""and the Lord showed me four carpenters"; and these are they, Elijah, and the king Messiah, and Melchizedek and the anointed for war.''\n\nAnd one of their commentators {q} on the same text says,\n\n"our Rabbins of blessed memory, explain this verse of the days of the Messiah;''\n\nand then cites the above passage out of the Talmud; and another {r} refers unto it; [See comments on Mt 13:55]. The inhabitants of Nazareth go on, in order to reproach Jesus, calling him\n\nthe son of Mary; a poor woman of their town, and perhaps now a widow, since no mention is made of Joseph:\n\nthe brother of James and Joses, and of Juda and Simon? who were all of them the sons of Alphaeus or Cleophas, who was himself brother, or his wife sister, to Joseph or Mary; so that Christ was the near kinsman of these his sons: and it was usual with the Jews to call such an one a brother, and even indeed a more distant relation.

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AMHEVG ከዚያም ወጥቶ ወደ ገዛ አገሩ መጣ ደቀ መዛሙርቱም ተከተሉት። አማርኛ BCV ኢየሱስ ካብኡ ወፂኡ ናብ ዓዱ ኸደ፤ ደቀ መዛሙርቱ ኸዓ ሰዓብዎ። ትግርኛ GAZBIB Yesus iddoo sana dhiisee adeemee, gara mandara kutaa biyya itti dhalatee dhaqe; bartoonni isaas isa duukaa dhaqan. Afaan Oromoo BCV GIZ ወወፂኦ እግዚእ ኢየሱስ እምህየ ቦአ ሀገሮ ወተለውዎ አርዳኢሁ። giz GAZGAZ Yesus iddoo sana dhiisee adeemee, gara mandara kutaa biyya itti dhalatee dhaqe; bartoonni isaas isa duukaa dhaqan. Afaan Oromoo BCV aksum ኢየሱስ ካብኡ ወፂኡ ናብ ዓዱ ኸደ፤ ደቀ መዛሙርቱ ኸዓ ሰዓብዎ። ትግርኛ AMHNIV ከዚህ በኋላ ኢየሱስ ከዚያ ተነሥቶ ወደ ገዛ አገሩ ሄደ፤ ደቀ መዛሙርቱም ተከተሉት። አማርኛ SWAHSUV Akatoka huko, akafika mpaka nchi ya kwao; wanafunzi wake wakamfuata. Kiswahili