Mark - 1:28



28 The report of him went out immediately everywhere into all the region of Galilee and its surrounding area.

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Explanation and meaning of Mark 1:28.

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And immediately his fame spread abroad throughout all the region round about Galilee.
And the report of him went out straightway everywhere into all the region of Galilee round about.
And the fame of him was spread forthwith into all the country of Galilee.
And his fame went out straightway into the whole region of Galilee around.
And immediately his fame spread abroad throughout all the region around Galilee.
And the fame of him went forth immediately to all the region, round about, of Galilee.
And His fame spread at once everywhere in all that part of Galilee.
And news of him went out quickly everywhere into all parts of Galilee round about.
And at once the news of him went out everywhere into all the region of Galilee and its surrounding area.
And his fame went out quickly, throughout the entire region of Galilee.
His fame spread at once in all directions, through the whole region of Galilee.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

And immediately his fame spread abroad - The miracle which he had performed was -
1. great;
2. evidenced much benevolence in the worker of it; and
3. was very public, being wrought in the synagogue.
The many who saw it published it wherever they went; and thus the fame of Christ, as an incomparable teacher, and unparalleled worker of miracles, became soon spread abroad through the land.
The word, ευθεως, immediately, occurs more frequently in this evangelist than in any other writer of the new covenant: it is very often superfluous, and may often be omitted in the translation, without any prejudice to the sense of the passage in which it is found. It seems to be used by St. Mark, as our ancient writers used forsooth, and such like words.

And immediately his fame spread abroad throughout all the region (r) round about Galilee.
(r) Not only into Galilee, but also into the countries bordering upon it.

And immediately his fame spread abroad,.... Not only in the city of Capernaum, where these things were done, and where his fame was first spread, but also
throughout all the region round about Galilee: and not only throughout Galilee, but throughout all the country that was bordering upon it, and adjacent to it; see Matthew 4:23. The Persic version reads, "through all the provinces".

And immediately his fame spread abroad throughout all the region round about Galilee--rather, "the whole region of Galilee"; though some, as MEYER and ELLICOTT, explain it of the country surrounding Galilee.

His fame spread abroad. For notes on the increasing fame of Christ see Matthew 4:25; for notes on the healing of Peter's wife's mother, see Matthew 8:14.

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