Mark 15

Mark 15:7

IN the insurrection,] he seemes to intimate some new and notable insurrection.

Mark 15:21

Of Alexander,] knowne and famous persons in the Church at that time.

Mark 15:23

Wine,] this should seeme to be another kinde of drinke besides the vineger mingled with gall, Matth. 27. 34. For this wine was given to condemned men in mercy, to dull their sences. The other was given by the souldiers, in mockery and insolency. Vnlesse we should say, that these wicked men mingled all together.Received it not,] as well to preserve and keepe himselfe in his entire senses to the last, to make his sufferings perfectly voluntary: as because he would not abate any thing of his torments: willing to beare them all thorow obedience and overcome them by his onely vertue, uprightnesse and innocency.

Mark 15:25

The third,] namely, of cleere day, which was divided into twelve even hours, Iohn 11. 9. and therefore this third houre was correspondent to our nine a clock in the morning. See touching the houre of our Lords death, upon Iohn 19. 14.

Mark 15:32

And they,] that is as much as to say, one of them, Luke 23:39.

Mark 15:39

That he so,] the Italian, that after he had cried so,] though there were some apparent causes, to judge, that in this death there was some supernaturall thing, it being cleere that it was a voluntary death, seeing he was yet full of life, yeelding so strong a cry, and that he had no other wound but onely the piercing of his hands and his feet: whereupon Pilate also marvelled that he should be dead already. Yet for all that we must beleeve, that the Centurion had some divine instinct to beleeve and speake in that kinde.

Mark 15:40

The lesse,] so sirnamed, either by reason of his stature, or for some other unknowne reason to distinguish him from the other two, Iames of Alpheus, and Zebedeus, the Apostles.

Mark 15:42

Because it was,] it should seeme that this was the occasion which moved Ioseph to make such haste, by reason of nights drawing on; namely, because at the selfesame time he began the preparation of the feast, which lasted from nine houres untill the beginning of the day, which was before the feast, of which three houres there was at the least one festivall The preparation,] see upon Matthew 27:62.

Mark 15:43

Counsellor,] Senator or member of that great Councell of seventy two The kingdome,] namely, the restauration of the spirituall kingdome of the Church by the Messias. See Luke 2. 25. 38.