Mark 15:31 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Likewise also the chief priests mocking said among themselves with the scribes, He saved others; himself he cannot save. ”

• Mark 15:31 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Mark 15:21-32 * The Crucifixion. Usually the criminal himself carried his cross ( i.e. the cross-bar, probably not the upright). Jesus seems to have been exhausted by the scourging and by His ow...

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• Mark 15:31 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  also the chief priests the chief priests also (as well as the passers by). said . kept saying. among themselves to (Greek. pros. App-101.) each other. others. Greek allos. App-124. ca...

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• Mark 15:31 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Likewise also the chief priests mocking said among themselves with the scribes, He saved others; himself he cannot save.

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• Mark 15:31 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Himself he cannot save.— Cannot he save himself? Beza, Bengelius.

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• Mark 15:31 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And they compel one Simon a Cyrenian, who passed by, coming out of the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to bear his cross. For the exposition, see the notes at John 19:17-30 .

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• Mark 15:31 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Trial Before Pilate. The Crucifixion 1-15. Trial before Pilate ( Matthew 27:1 ; Matthew 27:11 ; Luke 23:1 ; Luke 23:13 ; John 18:28 ). See on Mt and Jn. For the trial before Herod see on...

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• Mark 15:31 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  (21-38) See Notes on Matthew 27:32-51 .

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• Mark 15:31 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  CHAPTER 15:21-32 ( Mark 15:21-32 ) CHRIST CRUCIFIED "And they compel one passing by, Simon of Cyrene, coming from the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to go with them, that he might be...

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• Mark 15:31 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  a King upon His Cross Mark 15:22-47 Our Lord refused to drink the potion prepared by the women of Jerusalem, in order to stupefy those who were crucified and so deaden the sense of pain, becaus...

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• Mark 15:31 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  This chapter is one of those that needs little explanation and must ever be read in awe and reverence. Pilate represented the Roman empire, which attempted to secure itself by its ordinary methods of...

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• Mark 15:31 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (21) And, they compel one Simon, a Cyrenian, who passed by, coming out of the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to bear his cross. (22) And they bring him unto the place Golgotha, which is,...

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• Mark 15:31 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  THE LESSONS OF FAILURE ‘He saved others; Himself He cannot save.’ Mark 15:31 I. This is the great lesson of failure .—It is God’s will. What a world of meaning there is in those few words!...

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• Mark 15:31 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Likewise also the chief priests mocking ,.... Or "laughed at one another", as the Syriac version renders it, having gained their point, and satiated their revenge on him: said among themselves wit...

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• Mark 15:31 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Crucifixion.       22 And they bring him unto the place Golgotha, which is, being interpreted, The place of a skull.   23 And they ga...

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• Mark 15:31 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  See Poole on " Mark 15:21 "

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• Mark 15:31 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The Crucifixion (15:20-39). It must have come as a huge anti-climax to those who heard this story for the first time when they learned that this One Who had done such good and had taught so well s...

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• Mark 15:31 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES Mark 15:21 . Compel .— Press into service : original word is of Persian origin, and denotes the impressment into service which officials were authorised to make to...

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• Mark 15:31 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Mark 15:24-41 What took place around the Cross of Christ. I. Notice what men did during the crucifixion of Christ. (1) The soldiers. They are careless and confident. They cast lots for the cloth...

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• Mark 15:31 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  Let us read again what we have often read before, that saddest of all stories which, nevertheless, is the fountain of the highest gladness,-the story of our Saviour's death, as recorded by Mark. Ma...

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• Mark 15:31 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Mark 15:1 . Straightway in the morning the chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole council. Συνεδριν, the whole sanhedrim, consisting of seventy, but which must...

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• Mark 15:31 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Let Christ, the King of Israel, now descend from the cross. A glorious reproach In the Divinest sense He could not save Himself. Physically, of course, He could have delivered Himself, “come do...

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• Mark 15:31 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Mark 15:1 And straightway in the morning the chief priests with the elders and scribes, and the whole council, held a consultation, and bound Jesus, and carried him away, and d...

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• Mark 15:31 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The sufferings of the cross:

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• Mark 15:31 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Peter 3:17 ; 1 Peter 3:18 ; John 11:47-52 ; John 12:23 ; John 12:24 ; Luke 23:35-37 ; Matthew 27:41-43 ; Psalms 2:1-4 ; Psalms 22:16 ; Psalms 22:17

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