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MARK 1:37 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Mark 1:36Mark 1:38
“And when they had found him, they said unto him, All men seek for thee.”
Everyone is looking for you — the disciples' report is a success announcement. From a human ministry-growth perspective, the situation is ideal: the whole city responded to the first day of public ministry and wants more. The everyone is looking for you is presented as good news, the obvious next step. The disciples' expectation is that Jesus will return to Capernaum and continue what produced the crowd. Jesus' response to this success report is the first indication that his agenda and his disciples' agenda are not identical — the kingdom's advance does not follow the logic of maximizing crowd response or staying where the reception is warmest.

Church Fathers on Mark 1:37

After that the Lord had cured the sick, He retired apart.

Theophylact · 11th century

But by this preaching, which, he says, 'He continued in all Galilee,' is also meant the sermon of the Lord delivered on the mount, which Matthew mentions, and Mark has entirely passed over, without giving any thing like it, save that he has repeated some sentences not in continuous order, but in scattered places, spoken by the Lord at other times.

Augustine · 4th century · de Con. Evan., ii, 19

Again, mystically if by the setting of the sun, the death of the Saviour is intended, why should not His resurrection be intended by the returning dawn? For by its clear light, He went far into the wilderness of the Gentiles, and there continued praying in the person of His faithful disciples, for He aroused their hearts by the grace of the Holy Spirit to the virtue of prayer.

Bede · 8th century
Read all 6 entries in the readerCatena Aurea · St. Thomas Aquinas, tr. J. H. Newman · public domain
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