Quotes & Notes on:     Mark 1:32   

• John Wesley's Notes:
  When the sun was set-And, consequently, the Sabbath was ended, which they reckoned from sunset to sunset.
   

• The Fourfold Gospel:

    And at even, when the sun did set, they brought unto him all that were sick, and them that were possessed with demons. Their delay till sundown was unquestionably caused by the traditional law of the Sabbath which forbade men to carry any burden on that day (Joh 5:10). The Sabbath closed at sundown (Le 23:32). The distinction is drawn between the sick and the demon-possessed. Lightfoot gives two reasons why demoniacal possession was so common at that time, namely: 1, the intense wickedness of the nation; 2, the addiction of the nation to magic, whereby the people invited evil spirits to be familiar with them.
  
   

• Treasury of Scripture Knowledge:

   at even. Mr 1:21; 3:2; Mt 8:16; Lu 4:40
   

• Robertson's Word Pictures:
  When the sun did set (hote edusen ho hêlios). This picturesque detail Mark has besides "at even" (opsias genomenês, genitive absolute, evening having come). Matthew has "when even was come," Luke "when the sun was setting." The sabbath ended at sunset and so the people were now at liberty to bring their sick to Jesus. The news about the casting out of the demon and the healing of Peter's mother-in-law had spread all over Capernaum. They brought them in a steady stream (imperfect tense, epheron). Luke (Lu 4:40) adds that Jesus laid his hand on every one of them as they passed by in grateful procession.
   

• William Burkitt's Notes:

   The evangelist here declares sundry other miracles wrought by our Saviour before the door of St. Peter's house, where he now was; he healed all the diseased that were brought unto him, and cast devils out of them that were possessed with them.
  
  But how comes it to pass, that we read of so many possessed with devils in our Saviour's time, and so few either before or since?
  
  Ans. 1. Probably Satan, perceiving that the Messiah was come in the flesh to destroy his kingdom, did rage the more, and discover great malice and enmity against mankind.
  
  2. Perhaps Almighty God permitted Satan at that time to possess so many, that Christ might have occasion to manifest his divine power by casting Satan out: and accordingly we find our Saviour dispossessing all that were possessed by Satan.
  
  It is added, that he suffered not the devils to speak, because they knew him. That is, Christ would not be made known to be the Son of God by the preaching of the devil, to whom it belonged not to publish the gospel, lest the world should take from thence an occasion to think that our Saviour held a correspondence with those wicked spirits, and that the miracles he wrought were performed by the devil's assistance, as being one in combination with him. Possibly the devil's owning Christ to be the Holy One of God, the Pharisees concluded that there was a compact and agreement betwixt them, and thereupon their affirmation was grounded, He casteth out devils by Beelzebub, &c.
   

• Family Bible Notes:

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• 1599 Geneva Bible Notes:
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• People's New Testament Commentary:

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• Albert Barnes' Commentary:

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• Jamieson-Faussett Brown:

   And at even, when the sun did set--so Mt 8:16. Luke (Lu 4:40) says it was setting.
  
  they brought unto him all that were diseased, and them that were possessed with devils--the demonized. From Lu 13:14 we see how unlawful they would have deemed it to bring their sick to Jesus for a cure during the sabbath hours. They waited, therefore, till these were over, and then brought them in crowds. Our Lord afterwards took repeated occasion to teach the people by example, even at the risk of His own life, how superstitious a straining of the sabbath rest this was.
   

• Spurgeon Commentary on Matthew:

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• Spurgeon Devotional Commentary:

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• Adam Clarke's Commentary:

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• Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary:

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