Studies in Mark's Gospel Author:American Tract Society, Charles Seymour Robinson Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III. A DAY'S WORK IN CAPERNAUM. "AND HE HEALED MANY THAT WERE SICK OP DIVERS DISEASES, AND CAS.T OUT MANY DEVILS; AND SUFFERED NOT THE DEVILS TO SPEA... more »K, BECAUSE THEY KNEW HIM."—Mark 1:34. The text forms the culmination and the close of a most remarkable passage, in which is described, with that fullness of detail for which the evangelist Mark is so distinguished, just one day's work of our Lord Jesus Christ. It was a Sabbath-day; and from morning to even when '' the sun did set,'' he was preaching and working miracles for his occupation. The preaching was such that the people were "astonished," and the miracles were such that they were '' amazed.'' We cannot fail to see that these two, the wonders and the doctrine, go together in producing the impression by which his "fame" was spread abroad through all the region of Galilee. He taught "as one that had authority, and not as the scribes," because with "authority" he commanded the unclean spirits also. The vast powers of his evangelical commission from heaven covered the signs and the sermons, and made them help each other. It seems worth our while, now once for all in this course of study, that an hour should be spent in the patient and exclusive examination of themiracles which our Saviour wrought in attestation of his teaching. I. There were some few outward circumstances in which they differed from all others. 1. For one thing, you cannot fail, in reading the gospel history, to have been struck with the almost endless variety of these miracles of Jesus. He hardly moved, without some splendid sign falling by the way to show he had passed. Everything yielded to his power. Sickness and disease of every kind were rebuked. The powers of nature were checked, and urged forward, at his will. The sea was calm...« less