They had perhaps begun to have faith in their own powers rather than in the authority of Jesus, for it was because of ‘their little faith’ (Matthew 17:20) that they failed. Like intertwining snakes, the loathly heads are separate; but the slimy convolutions are twisted indistinguishably together, and all unbelief has in it the nature of perversity, as all perversity has in it the nature of unbelief. Surely that is wondrous and heart-touching love, that Christ should let their slowness measure the time during which He should linger here, and refrain from the glory which He desired. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/sbc/mark-9.html. Bede compares it to that of a physician whose directions have not been followed. how long shall I suffer you? Wyc., out of belief. 1914. DD. We find Him more than once in His life hemmed in, hindered of His purpose-simply because there was nobody with a heart open to receive the rich treasure He was ready to pour out Here I would remark, too, before I go to another point, that these two elements-that of personal sorrow and that of disappointed love and baulked purposes-continue still, and are represented as in some measure felt by Him now. (Mar 9:19-27) Jesus delivers the boy. "Commentary on Mark 9:19". He had been away for a day up in the mountain there, and though they did not build an altar to any golden calf, like their ancestors, when their leader was absent, still when He comes back He finds things all gone wrong because of the few hours of His absence. The first thing that seems to be in these words is not anger, indeed, but a very distinct and very pathetic expression of Christ’s infinite pain, because of man’s faithlessness. Nor does i much, if at all, mend the matter to view it as addressed to both as most expositors seem to do. Copyright � Broadman Press 1932,33, Renewal 1960. These few brief words reveal how much it continually cost Him to be in an unbelieving world. John Trapp Complete Commentary. how long shall I suffer you? https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/tfg/mark-9.html. In this the father, disciples, Scribes, and multitude are equally involved. His teachings in this section include a prediction of His death and resurrection, and corrections to the disciples' errors on questions of pride and temptation. And that feeling is increased by the experience of their utter helplessness and shameful discomfiture during His brief absence They had shown that they were not fit to be trusted alone. To me this plaintive question has the very opposite of indignation in its ring. And Scripture seems to countenance the belief that Divine Love, too, may know something, in some mysterious fashion, like that feeling, when it warns us, “Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.” So we may venture to say, Grieve not the Christ of God, who redeems us; and remember that we grieve Him most when we will not let Him pour His love upon us, but turn a sullen, unresponsive unbelief towards His pleading grace, as some glacier shuts out the sunshine from the mountainside with its thick-ribbed ice. Copyright StatementJames Burton Coffman Commentaries reproduced by permission of Abilene Christian University Press, Abilene, Texas, USA. In this the father, disciples, scribes, and multitude are equally involved’ (Alford). It was to disciples that He said, “O faithless generation!” He did not mean to charge them with the entire absence of all confidence, but He did mean to declare that their poor, feeble faith, such as it was, was not worth naming in comparison with the abounding mass of their unbelief. The element of personal sorrow is most obvious here. All that ever the teachers and guides and leaders of the world have in this respect had to bear-all the misery of opening out their hearts in the frosty air of unbelief and rejection-Christ endured. It was the faith of Jesus which was strong and unfailing because grounded in His union and continual fellowship with the Father. His second question reveals the heavy load that their unbelief placed on Him (cf. II. we do not make our appeal in vain. ‘How long shall I put up with you?’ Their unbelief wearied Him and hurt Him deeply, especially that of the disciples. "E.W. Greek Testament Critical Exegetical Commentary. Throughout the Synoptics, the chief agreements are in Christ’s Sayings, which tradition preserved more carefully than narrative or the sayings of others. It is a strange, solemn thought. And, thank God! Not to the man alone (as the incorrect reading implies), though he was included, but to the multitude, whom our Lord addresses as representing that faithless, or, ‘unbelieving,’ generation. bring him unto me, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, He answereth him, and saith, O faithless generation. It is to us surprising that some interpreters, as Chrysostom and Calvin, should represent this rebuke as addressed, not to the disciples at all, but to the scribes who disputed with them. how long shall I be with you? It is to us surprising that some interpreters, as Chrysostom and Calvin, should represent this rebuke as addressed, not to the disciples at all, but to the scribes who disputed with them. The disciples had failed and their unbelief had led to this fiasco. The faith of the crowds was limited to a mild hope and expectation. The question is not asked in a spirit of longing to be gone from them, but of holy impatience of their hardness of heart and unbelief. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/bcc/mark-9.html. how long shall I suffer you? He names the fault plainly. BibliographyPett, Peter. Unbelieving would be better here. The plain felt soul-chilling after the blessed communion of the mountain. Another thought, which seems to me to be expressed in this wonderful exclamation of our Lord’s, is-that this faithlessness bound Christ to earth, and kept Him here. Thus lived the solitary Christ, the uncomprehended Christ, the unaccepted Christ. "Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Unabridged". There are many difficulties which start up, if we at all accept it. 19. Again, we here get a glimpse into the depth of Christ's patience and forbearance. ‘Bring him to me.’ But Jesus had no doubt about His own success because He knew that His total faith was in the Father. Among us these would all be considered as marks of violent derangement or madness. He shows distinctly His sorrow, and does not hide the strain on His forbearance. Deuteronomy 32:20, where ἄπιστος is also expressed by νἱοὶ οἷς οὐκ ἔστι πίστις ἐν αὐτοῖς. Another thought which seems to me to be expressed in this wonderful exclamation of our Lord is, that their faithlessness bound Christ to earth, and kept Him there. He answereth him The father of the child, and who is included in the reproof afterwards given, for his unbelief, and taking part with the Scribes against his disciples; though the Vulgate Latin, Arabic, Persic, and Ethiopic versions, read, "them"; meaning not his disciples, but the Scribes and Pharisees, with the father of the child: and saith, He answereth him, and saith, O faithless generation — “and perverse,” or “perverted” (Matthew 17:17; Luke 9:41). 2013. Bring him unto me—The order to bring the patient to Him was instantly obeyed; when, lo! BibliographyMacLaren, Alexander. how long shall I suffer you? BibliographyExell, Joseph S. "Commentary on "Mark 9:19". "Commentary on Mark 9:19". He longed that the ‘fire’ which He came to fling on earth were already ‘kindled,’ and the moments seemed to drop so slowly from the urn of time. But neither the holy longing to consummate His work by the mystery of His passion, to which more than one of His words bear witness, nor the not less holy longing to be glorified with ‘the glory which He had with the Father before the world was,’ which we may reverently venture to suppose in Him, could be satisfied till his slow scholars were wiser, and His feeble followers stronger.

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