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Mark 10:16 open_in_new
blessed them
In Hebrew custom, a father's act.
Compare (Genesis 27:38).
"He had no children that He might adopt all children." -- Bengel.
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Mark 10:18 open_in_new
Why callest
Believing Me to be but a human teacher, why callest thou Me "good," etc.
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Mark 10:24 open_in_new
astonished
Or, amazed, that is, as Jews: knowing that temporal prosperity was, to the Jew as such, a token of divine favour. For example (Deuteronomy 28:1-12).
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Mark 10:25 open_in_new
eye of
It has been thought the reference here was to a postern door set in a gate of Jerusalem.
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Mark 10:33 open_in_new
Son of man
( See Scofield) - (Matthew 8:20).
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Mark 10:45 open_in_new
life
Or, soul.
Compare (Isaiah 53:10); (Isaiah 53:12).
(Greek, "psuchē", "the soul" or "the essential life", not as commonly, Greek, "zoe," "the active life").
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Mark 10:46 open_in_new
And they
( See Scofield) - (Matthew 20:30).