Mark 6:7 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

called. The 1611 edition of the Authorized Version reads "calleth".

two and two. Greek. duo duo, Modern critics object that it is not good Greek to repeat the cardinal number for. distributive numeral. But it is found in Aeschylus and Sophocles, and in the Oxyrhynchus Papyri (Nos. 121 and 886). See Deisamann's Light, pp 124, 125.

power. authority. App-172.

spirits. Greek plural of pneuma. See App-101.

Mark 6:7

7 And he called unto him the twelve, and began to send them forth by two and two; and gave them power over unclean spirits;