Tuesday, November 05, 2013

Mark 1:21



Mark 1:21

And they went into Capernaum; and straightway on the sabbath day he entered into the synagogue, and taught.

1. “And they went into Capernaum…”

a. Capernaum [2584 * Kaphamaoum][BLB: Capernaum = "village of comfort", a flourishing city of Galilee situated on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee or Lake of Gennesaret, near the place where the Jordan flows into the lake.][Thayer: Village of Comfort.]

b. Other sources say it means Village of Nahum and tradition says his burial place is there.

2. “…and straightway on the sabbath day he entered into the synagogue, and taught.”

a. Jesus was raised an observant Jew and as such he would have gone to the synagogue on the Sabbath day.

1). Luke 4:16 And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read.

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