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Title: A pictorial commentary on the Gospel according to Mark : with the text of the Authorized and Revised versions
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Rice, Edwin W. (Edwin Wilbur), 1831-1929
Subjects: Bible
Publisher: Philadelphia : The American Sunday-School Union
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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sunset. Our Sunday was ih.&\r first day of theweek, and therefore to them a secular day. The order of events were : (1)The Saviour apparently reached Bethany on the evening of Friday, Nisan 8.There (2) in quiet retirement he spent the sabbath before his crucifixion ; and(3) in the evening (the Jewish sabbath ending at sunset), he sat down to afestal meal, attended by the sisters of Lazarus at the house of Simon, a leper(Matt, xxvi, 6); John xii, 1). (4) At this feast he was anointed by Mary(John xii, 3); and (5) during the night a council of the Jews consulted howto put, not him only, but Lazarus also to death (John xii, 10). they came) See R. V. Mark passes by the events at Simons house to relatethe entry into Jerusalem From this triumphal entry made after the Jewishsabbath, and on the first day of the week, the day is celebrated as PalmSunday by some churches. The narrative is written in the present tense. unto Bethphage^ On the first day of the week the Saviour left Bethany and
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127 128 A PICTORIAL COMMENTARY (Mark XI, 2-4. Authorized Version. i Revised Version.at the mount of Olives, he sendeth forth two of of Olives, he sendeth two of his disciples, andhis disciples, 2 saith unto them, Go your way into the vil-2 And saith unto them. Go your way into the lage that is over against you: and straight-village over against you: and as soon as ye be ; way as ye enter into it, ye shall find a coltentered into it, ye shall find a colt tied, whereon ; tied, whereon no man ever yet sat; loosenever man sat; loose him, and bring him. i 3 him, and bring him. And if any one say unto you, Why do ye this? say ye, The Lordhath need of him; and straightway he * will4 send him ^^ack hither. And they wentaway, and found a colt tied at the dour with-out in the open street; and they loose him. 3 And if any man say unto you, Why do yethis? say ye that the Lord hath need of him;and straightway he will send him hither. 4 And they went their way, and fouHd thecolt tied by the door wi

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