Mark 9:50 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another. ”

• Mark 9:50 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  See the notes at Matthew 18:7-9 . Millstone. See Matthew 18:6 . Mark 9:44-46 Their worm - This figure is taken from Isaiah 66:24 . See the notes at that passage. In describing the great...

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• Mark 9:50 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  A Conversation with the Twelve. This section illustrates the kind of teaching which Jesus gave in private to His disciples. It may embody fragmentary recollections of a particular discussion, but m...

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• Mark 9:50 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  but if , &c. Figure of speech Paraoemia (App-6). lost his saltness . become saltless. wherewith . with (Greek. en. App-104.) what. Compare Matthew 5:13 ; Luke 14:34 . season it? . re...

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• Mark 9:50 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  Mark 9:50 . Have salt in yourselves This word may be taken in a different sense from what it had in the former verse, as meaning that seasoning of good odor, which is obtained by faith, or r...

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• Mark 9:50 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 1437 CHRISTIANS TO HAVE SALT IN THEMSELVES Mark 9:49-50 . Every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt. Salt is good: but if the salt have lost h...

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• Mark 9:50 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another. If the salt have lost his saltness - See on Matthew 5:1...

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• Mark 9:50 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  But if the salt have lost, &c.— But if the salt is become insipid. See on Matthew 5:13 and on Leviticus 2:13 . The ancients looked upon salt, as the symbol of friendship and peace; in re...

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• Mark 9:50 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another. Salt is good; but if the salt have lost his saltne...

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• Mark 9:50 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Transfiguration. An Epileptic Healed. Prediction of His Death 2-8. The Transfiguration ( Matthew 17:1 ; Luke 9:28 ). See on Mt.

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• Mark 9:50 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  CHAPTER 9:38-50 ( Mark 9:38-50 ) OFFENSES "John said unto Him, Master, we saw one casting out devils in Thy Name: and we forbade him, because he followed not us. But Jesus said, Forbid him not: f...

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• Mark 9:50 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  the Path to Greatness Mark 9:30-50 Such were the hopes awakened by the Transfiguration and the following miracles that the disciples were led to speculate upon their relative position in the Ki...

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• Mark 9:50 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Here we see four men who have passed without death into the atmosphere and society of the heavens. One only of the four is there by His own right. Pure and spotless humanity stands in the glory of th...

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• Mark 9:50 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (49) For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt. (50) Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in you...

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• Mark 9:50 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  PURITY AND PEACE ‘Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.’ Mark 9:50 I. Let us make sure that we have in our hearts the saving grace of the Holy Ghost, sanctifying, purif...

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• Mark 9:50 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Salt is good ,.... To make meat savoury, and keep flesh from corrupting; and so is the grace of God, to season men's hearts, make their discourse savoury, and preserve them from the corruption of si...

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• Mark 9:50 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another. Ver. 50. Salt is good ] Nature hath prudently mingle...

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• Mark 9:50 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  For every one shall be salted with fire These words seem to refer to the preceding, respecting the punishment of those who will not cut off the offending members, which render them obnoxious to fut...

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• Mark 9:50 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Pain to Be Preferred to Sin.       41 For whosoever shall give you a cup of water to drink in my name, because ye belong to Christ, veril...

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• Mark 9:50 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  We met with the former part of this verse: See Poole on " Matthew 5:13 " . In that text he compared his disciples, whether preachers or others, to salt, because by their doctrine, and holy life and...

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• Mark 9:50 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The Test Of What Men And Women Are Is Determined By What They Do In His Name (9:33-50). Jesus now gives a number of illustrations of what it means to act in His Name as the Messiah. He gives three...

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• Mark 9:50 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES Mark 9:42-47 . Offend .— Lay a trap for . See on chap. Mark 6:3 . Mark 9:42 . It is better for him .— A happy thing it is for him rather . Cp. 1 Corinthians 9:...

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• Mark 9:50 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Mark 9:2 . And after six days, not counting the two sabbaths, as in Luke 9:28 . See on Matthew 17:1 . Mark 9:16 . He asked the scribes, what question ye with them? No answer! They had been i...

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• Mark 9:50 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Salt is good. Have salt in yourselves This is only another form of exhorting Christians to have strength of character as Christians. But since a strong character, in the spiritual as in the nat...

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• Mark 9:50 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Mark 9:1 Till they see the kingdom of God come with power. In St. Matthew 16:28 the words run thus: "Till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom." In St. Luke 9:27 ,...

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• Mark 9:50 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The conclusion of Christ's discourse:

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• Mark 9:50 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Peter 3:8 ; 2 Corinthians 13:11 ; 2 Timothy 2:22 ; Colossians 3:12 ; Colossians 4:6 ; Ephesians 4:2-6 ; Ephesians 4:29 ; Ephesians 4:31 ; Ephesians 4:32 ; Galatians 5:14 ; Galatians 5:15...

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• Mark 9:50 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Such salt is good indeed; highly beneficial to the world, in respect of which I have termed you the salt of the earth. But if the salt which should season others, have lost its own saltness, wherew...

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