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Mark 3:8

King James Version (KJV)

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Mark 3:8

Verse 8 of 35

Scripture focus

And from Jerusalem, and from Idumaea, and [from] beyond Jordan; and they about Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, when they had heard what great things he did, came unto him.

Mark 3:8 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Mark 3:8

Theological / Devotional

Idumcea. That is, the land of Edom. The word “Idumaea” occurs only here in the NT. Josephus (Antiquities xiii. 9. 1 [257, 258]) says that Idumaea was conquered by John Hyrcanus more than a century before the time of Christ, and its people forced to at least a nominal acceptance of the rites and practices of the Jewish religion (see p. 33).

Tyre and Sidon. See Vol. I, p. 128; Vol. II, pp. 67, 68; see on Gen. 10:15. Only Samaria is conspicuously absent from the enumeration here of the various districts in and near Palestine.

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