The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel According to St. Mark Part 33

12 That the event was recent is implied in the present tense: "he followeth not": "forbid him not"; the matter is still fresh.

13 "By the fire the children sit Cold in that atmosphere of death."-_In Memoriam_, xx.

14 The ingenious and plausible attempt to show that His death was caused by a physical rupture of the heart has one fatal weakness.

Death came too late for this; the severest pressure was already relieved.

_ 15 I.e._ in the New Testament, where it occurs but once besides.

16 Can anything surpa.s.s that masterstroke of insight and descriptive power, "they still disbelieved for joy" (Luke xxiv. 41).