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Mark 9:34 — King James Version← Study notes

But they held their peace: for by the way they had disputed among themselves, who should be the greatest.


Mark 9:34Greek Interlinear

Greek · Mark 9:3412 words
GreekMeaning
οἱhoi
thearticleG3588
δὲde
AndwordG1161
ἐσιώπωνesiōpōn
they were silentverbG4623
πρὸςpros
withprepositionG4314
ἀλλήλουςallēlous
one anotherpronounG240
γὰρgar
forwordG1063
διελέχθησανdielechthēsan
they had been discussingverbG1256
ἐνen
alongprepositionG1722
τῇ
thearticleG3588
ὁδῷhodō
roadnounG3598
τίςtis
which waspronounG5100
μείζωνmeizōn
greatestadjectiveG3173
Greek text from the SBL Greek New Testament (SBLGNT). Transliteration follows SBL Academic conventions.

Church Fathers on Mark 9:34

It is after miracles that the Lord inserts a discourse concerning His Passion, lest it should be thought that He suffered because He could not help it.

Theophylact · 11th century

He always mingles together sorrowful and joyful things, that sorrow should not by its suddenness frighten the Apostles, but be borne by them with prepared minds.

Bede · 8th century · in Marc., 1, 39

Capernaum means the city of consolation, and agrees with the former sentence, which He had spoken: 'And after that He is killed, He shall arise the third day.'

Pseudo-Jerome · 5th century
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