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Marcos 6

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1E partiu d'ali, e chegou á sua patria, e os seus discipulos o seguiram.

2E, chegando o sabbado, começou a ensinar na synagoga; e muitos, ouvindo-o, se admiravam, dizendo: D'onde veem a este estas coisas? e que sabedoria é esta que lhe foi dada? e taes maravilhas, que por suas mãos se fazem?

3Não é este o carpinteiro, filho de Maria, e irmão de Thiago, e de José, e de Judas e de Simão? e não estão aqui comnosco suas irmãs? E escandalizavam-se n'elle.

4E Jesus lhes dizia: Não ha propheta sem honra senão na sua patria, entre os seus parentes, e na sua casa.

5E não podia fazer maravilha alguma; sómente curou alguns poucos enfermos, impondo-lhes as mãos.

6E estava maravilhado da incredulidade d'elles. E percorreu as aldeias visinhas, ensinando.

7Chamou a si os doze, e começou a envial-os a dois e dois, e deu-lhes poder sobre os espiritos immundos;

8E ordenou-lhes que nada tomassem para o caminho, senão sómente um bordão; nem alforge, nem pão, nem dinheiro no cinto;

9Mas que calçassem alparcas, e que não vestissem duas tunicas.

10E dizia-lhes: Aonde quer que entrardes n'alguma casa, ficae n'ella até sairdes de ali.

11E, quando alguns vos não receberem, nem vos ouvirem, saindo d'ali, sacudi o pó que estiver debaixo dos vossos pés, em testemunho para com elles. Em verdade vos digo que haverá mais tolerancia no dia de juizo para Sodoma e Gomorrah do que para os d'aquella cidade.

12E, saindo elles, prégavam que se arrependessem.

13E expulsavam muitos demonios, e ungiam muitos enfermos com azeite, e os curavam.

14E ouviu isto o rei Herodes (porque o seu nome se tornára notorio), e disse: João, o que baptizava, resuscitou dos mortos, e por isso estas maravilhas operam n'elle.

15Outros diziam: É Elias. E diziam outros: É um propheta, ou como um dos prophetas.

16Herodes, porém, ouvindo isto, disse: Este é João, que mandei degolar, resuscitou dos mortos.

17Porque o mesmo Herodes mandára prender a João, e encerral-o manietado no carcere, por causa de Herodias, mulher de Philippe, seu irmão, porquanto tinha casado com ella.

18Porque dizia João a Herodes: Não te é licito possuir a mulher de teu irmão.

19E Herodias o espiava, e queria matal-o, mas não podia,

20Porque Herodes temia a João, sabendo que era varão justo e sancto; e estimava-o, e fazia muitas coisas, attendendo-o, e de boamente o ouvia.

21E, chegando um dia opportuno em que Herodes, no dia dos seus annos dava uma ceia aos grandes, e tribunos, e principes da Galilea,

22E, tendo entrado a filha da mesma Herodias, e dançando, e agradando a Herodes e aos que estavam com elle á mesa, o rei disse á menina: Pede-me o que quizeres, e eu t'o darei.

23E jurou-lhe, dizendo: Tudo o que me pedires te darei, até metade do meu reino.

24E, saindo ella, disse a sua mãe: Que pedirei? E ella disse: A cabeça de João Baptista.

25E, entrando logo apressadamente, pediu ao rei, dizendo: Quero que immediatamente me dês n'um prato a cabeça de João Baptista.

26E o rei entristeceu-se muito; todavia, por causa do juramento e dos que estavam com elle á mesa, não lh'a quiz negar.

27E, enviando logo o rei o executor, mandou que lhe trouxessem ali a cabeça de João. E elle foi, e degolou-o na prisão;

28E trouxe a cabeça n'um prato, e deu-a á menina, e a menina a deu a sua mãe.

29E os seus discipulos, tendo ouvido isto, foram, tomaram o seu corpo, e o pozeram n'um sepulchro.

30E os apostolos ajuntaram-se a Jesus, e contaram-lhe tudo, tanto o que tinham feito como o que tinham ensinado.

31E elle disse-lhes: Vinde vós, aqui áparte, a um logar deserto, e repousae um pouco. Porque havia muitos que iam e vinham, e não tinham tempo para comer.

32E foram n'um barco para um logar deserto, em particular.

33E a multidão viu-os partir, e muitos o conheceram; e concorreram lá a pé de todas as cidades, e ali chegaram primeiro do que elles, e approximavam-se d'elle.

34E Jesus, saindo, viu uma grande multidão, e teve compaixão d'elles, porque eram como ovelhas que não teem pastor; e começou a ensinar-lhes muitas coisas.

35E, como o dia fosse já muito adiantado, os seus discipulos se approximaram d'elle, e lhe disseram: O logar é deserto, e o dia está já muito adiantado;

36Despede-os, para que vão aos logares e aldeias circumvisinhas, e comprem pão para si; porque não teem que comer.

37Elle, porém, respondendo, lhes disse: Dae-lhes vós de comer. E elles disseram-lhe: Iremos nós, e compraremos duzentos dinheiros de pão para lhes darmos de comer?

38E elle disse-lhes: Quantos pães tendes? Ide vêr. E, sabendo-o elles, disseram: Cinco e dois peixes.

39E ordenou-lhes que fizessem assentar a todos, em ranchos, sobre a herva verde.

40E assentaram-ce repartidos de cem em cem, e de cincoenta em cincoenta.

41E, tomando elle os cinco pães e os dois peixes, levantou os olhos ao céu, abençoou e partiu os pães, e deu-os aos seus discipulos para que os pozessem adiante d'elles. E repartiu os dois peixes por todos;

42E todos comeram, e ficaram fartos;

43E levantaram doze cestos cheios de pedaços de pão e de peixes.

44E os que comeram os pães eram quasi cinco mil homens.

45E logo obrigou os seus discipulos a subir para o barco, e ir adiante, para a outra banda, defronte de Bethsaida, entretanto que elle despedia a multidão.

46E, tendo-os despedido, foi ao monte a orar.

47E, sobrevindo a tarde, estava o barco no meio do mar, e elle sósinho em terra.

48E viu que se fatigavam remando muito, porque o vento lhes era contrario, e perto da quarta vigilia da noite approximou-se d'elles, andando sobre o mar, e queria passar adiante d'elles.

49Mas, quando o viram andar sobre o mar, cuidaram que era um phantasma, e deram grandes gritos.

50Porque todos o viam, e turbaram-se; mas logo fallou com elles, e disse-lhes: Tende bom animo; sou eu, não temaes.

51E subiu para o barco para estar com elles, e o vento se aquietou; e entre si ficaram muito assombrados e maravilhados;

52Pois ainda não tinham comprehendido o milagre dos pães; porque o seu coração estava endurecido.

53E, quando já estavam na outra banda, dirigiram-se á terra de Gennezareth, e ali tomaram porto.

54E, saindo elles do barco, logo o conheceram;

55E, correndo toda a terra em redor, começaram a trazer-lhe em leitos, aonde quer que sabiam que estava, os que se achavam enfermos.

56E, aonde quer que entrava, em cidade, ou aldeias, ou logares, apresentavam os enfermos nas praças, e rogavam-lhe que ao menos tocassem a orla do seu vestido; e todos os que lhe tocavam saravam.

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Summary

Jesus is rejected in his hometown, sends the twelve disciples out on a mission, Herod has John the Baptist beheaded, and Jesus feeds about five thousand people and then walks on the sea toward the disciples' boat.

Explanation

The rejection in Nazareth, where people had known him since childhood as 'the carpenter, the son of Mary,' shows how familiarity can, paradoxically, keep people from recognizing something extraordinary right in front of them. The account of John the Baptist's death is inserted as a pause in the narrative of the disciples' mission, showing the real cost of proclaiming the truth to powerful figures like Herod Antipas. The multiplication of the loaves, with the crowd organized into groups of fifty and a hundred, reveals practical, orderly care on Jesus' part, not just a spontaneous, chaotic miracle. Walking on the sea before dawn, and Mark's comment that the disciples had not 'understood about the loaves' because their hearts were hardened, points to how slow human beings can be to recognize clear signs of God's power.

Fun facts

  • 'Carpenter' in the culture of the time included work with stone and other building materials, not just wood, suggesting that Jesus had solid, practical, hands-on training before his public ministry.
  • Herod Antipas, referred to here as 'king,' technically held only the title of tetrarch (ruler of a fourth part of a territory), but was popularly called king by the local population.

Verse-by-verse explanation

  1. Marcos 6:1Nazareth was the town where Jesus had grown up, and returning there with His disciples meant reappearing before people who had known Him since childhood.
  2. Marcos 6:2The crowd’s questions mix admiration and suspicion: they recognize the wisdom and the miracles, but can’t square it with the image they already had of Him as an ordinary neighbor.
  3. Marcos 6:3Calling someone “the son of Mary” instead of naming the father, in a culture where identity came from the father, already sounded odd — maybe an indirect way of noting that Joseph had likely died, or even a spiteful jab at Jesus’s parentage. “The carpenter” indicated ordinary manual labor, with no prestige at all, which sharpens the crowd’s surprise at hearing Him teach with such authority.
  4. Marcos 6:4This saying about a prophet without honor in his own country explains the paradox: the more someone is known from childhood, the harder it becomes to accept that this person has something extraordinary to offer.
  5. Marcos 6:5This is a direct, no-frills statement: the lack of faith there limited what happened, leaving only a few isolated healings instead of the kind of movement seen in other towns.
  6. Marcos 6:6This time it is Jesus who marvels, only at people’s unbelief — a reversal of the usual pattern in the Gospel, where it’s normally the crowd that marvels at Him.
  7. Marcos 6:7Sending them out in pairs followed a practical, and also legal, custom of the time: two witnesses were needed to give reliable testimony of anything that happened along the way.
  8. Marcos 6:8A traveling preacher would normally carry provisions, money, and extra clothing for the journey; Jesus commands the opposite, so that the disciples would depend on the hospitality of whoever received them along the way. It was a test of trust both for the preachers and for the towns they visited.
  9. Marcos 6:9The instruction not to take two coats reinforces the same spirit of traveling light found in the rest of the list: no backup or extra comfort, just the essentials.
  10. Marcos 6:10Staying at the same house until leaving town kept the disciples from switching hosts in search of better accommodations, which would have given the wrong impression about the purpose of their visit.
  11. Marcos 6:11Jews used to shake the dust of non-Jewish territory off their feet when returning home, as if refusing to carry anything of that place with them. Using this gesture against a Jewish town was a harsh way of saying that visit had been treated as if it were foreign soil, and so it would be treated the same way in return.
  12. Marcos 6:12The summary of their preaching is direct: calling people to change their lives, the same message Jesus had announced since the start of chapter 1.
  13. Marcos 6:13Anointing with oil was a common healing practice at the time, used both by folk healers and later remembered elsewhere in the New Testament as part of caring for the sick.
  14. Marcos 6:14Herod Antipas was popularly called king, though his official Roman title was tetrarch, a lower-ranking ruler. The theory that John had risen from the dead shows how much that possibility troubled him.
  15. Marcos 6:15Other theories were also circulating: Elijah, expected to return before the Messiah, or some ancient prophet come back — a sign that no one quite knew who Jesus was, but everyone sensed something big was happening.
  16. Marcos 6:16Herod dismisses the other theories and returns to his own suspicion, almost a confession of guilt: he himself had John killed, and now he fears a kind of comeback.
  17. Marcos 6:17Philip, Herod’s brother, was still alive when Herodias left him to marry Herod — a scandal both because he was Herod’s brother and because it involved divorce and remarriage within the royal family itself.
  18. Marcos 6:18John publicly criticized this marriage, the kind of direct accusation against a ruler that rarely came cheap for whoever made it.
  19. Marcos 6:19Herodias holds a grudge and wants John killed, but runs into some obstacle — the text suggests she didn’t have the power to do it alone, and needed a specific opportunity.
  20. Marcos 6:20Herod lives with an inner conflict: he recognizes John as a just man and even enjoys listening to him, yet keeps him imprisoned, an unstable balance between respect and political fear.
  21. Marcos 6:21A birthday banquet gathering nobles, military officers, and leaders of Galilee was a scene of status and public display — exactly the kind of audience in front of which a king would hate to go back on his word.
  22. Marcos 6:22Herod Antipas had married Herodias, who was at once his niece and his own brother’s ex-wife — a marriage John the Baptist publicly criticized, which cost him his imprisonment. At the birthday feast, Herodias’s daughter dances and pleases the guests so much that Herod promises her anything in front of everyone, a typical exaggeration for this kind of royal celebration.
  23. Marcos 6:23Promising up to half of his own kingdom is a figure of speech, the kind of grand, thoughtless promise made in the excitement of a party, with no real calculation of what was actually being offered.
  24. Marcos 6:24The daughter’s question to her mother reveals that the answer had already been set in Herodias’s mind for some time — she uses the opening created by her own daughter’s dance to get what she hadn’t been able to get before.
  25. Marcos 6:25The mother seizes on the king’s over-the-top promise to demand John’s head on a platter, a shocking request even by the standards of the time. It shows the depth of the grudge Herodias held against the prophet who had publicly criticized her.
  26. Marcos 6:26Herod is genuinely saddened by the request, but chooses to keep a rash oath rather than publicly admit, in front of all his important guests, that he had promised too much.
  27. Marcos 6:27The order goes out immediately and the act is carried out right there in the prison, without ceremony — the same fast pace found in other scenes of Mark, here used for a tragedy instead of a miracle.
  28. Marcos 6:28The head passes from hand to hand like any object, from the executioner to the girl and from her to her mother — the final image underscores how much Herodias treated it as a conquered trophy.
  29. Marcos 6:29John’s disciples, unlike the scene before, give him a dignified burial, tending to his body with respect after everything that happened.
  30. Marcos 6:30“Apostles,” meaning those sent out, is the term used here as they return to report to Jesus on the mission they had carried out, picking back up the story that had been on pause since the start of the chapter.
  31. Marcos 6:31The constant rush, with no time even to eat, is the direct reason for the invitation to rest — it’s not a whim, but a response to real, accumulated exhaustion.
  32. Marcos 6:32Setting out by boat for a deserted place was an attempt to find privacy, something increasingly rare for the group at this point in the Gospel.
  33. Marcos 6:33The crowd manages to arrive on foot before the boat, probably cutting across land while the boat went around by water — a sign of how badly they wanted to reach Jesus, even right after His attempt at rest.
  34. Marcos 6:34“Sheep not having a shepherd” is an image used several times in the Old Testament to describe a people with no real leadership; Jesus responds to this crowd with compassion, not irritation at having His rest interrupted.
  35. Marcos 6:35The disciples notice two practical problems at once: the place was remote and the day was already far along, with no facilities nearby to feed so many people.
  36. Marcos 6:36The disciples’ solution is the most obvious one: send the crowd away to fend for themselves, buying food in the nearby villages before it got fully dark.
  37. Marcos 6:37A penny, or denarius, was a full day’s wage for an ordinary day laborer. Two hundred denarii represented nearly a year’s pay — the disciples’ answer shows just how absurd the problem of feeding that crowd was without counting on a miracle.
  38. Marcos 6:38Jesus’s practical question — how much do you have — leads to the discovery of a very small supply for the size of the crowd: five loaves and two fish, what the disciples already had on hand.
  39. Marcos 6:39Organizing the crowd to sit down in groups, instead of leaving it scattered, made both distributing the food and counting how many people were there easier.
  40. Marcos 6:40Sitting in rows of a hundred and of fifty recalls the way the people of Israel organized their camps in the wilderness, an almost military order within a meal scene.
  41. Marcos 6:41The sequence of looking up, blessing, and breaking the bread follows the common form of a Jewish blessing before a meal — the same pattern of gestures that reappears later at the last supper.
  42. Marcos 6:42“Were filled” is the key phrase: no one was left hungry, even though the starting supply was clearly not enough for so many people.
  43. Marcos 6:43Twelve baskets full of leftovers, a number that echoes the twelve tribes of Israel and the twelve disciples, show abundance beyond what was needed, not merely enough to avoid running short.
  44. Marcos 6:44The text specifically counts men, about five thousand, without including women and children — the total number of people fed was probably even higher.
  45. Marcos 6:45Jesus sends the disciples ahead by boat while He Himself takes care of dismissing the crowd, a task He preferred to handle alone.
  46. Marcos 6:46Only after handling all the logistics of the crowd does Jesus finally get the moment alone to pray that He had been seeking since the start of the chapter.
  47. Marcos 6:47The physical separation — the disciples out in the middle of the sea, Jesus alone on land — sets the stage for the episode of walking on water that comes next.
  48. Marcos 6:48The fourth watch of the night fell between three and six in the morning, the latest stretch of the night — the disciples had already been rowing for hours against the wind when Jesus approaches.
  49. Marcos 6:49Seeing someone walking on water was so far outside the ordinary that the first explanation to cross the disciples’ minds is the most frightening one: a ghost, not a real person.
  50. Marcos 6:50“It is I” is the same simple phrase of identification anyone might use to announce themselves in the dark, but here it carries extra weight, coming right after a moment of shared terror.
  51. Marcos 6:51The wind dying down as soon as Jesus climbs into the boat echoes the earlier storm scene, with the same kind of astonishment taking hold of the disciples.
  52. Marcos 6:52Mark explains their astonishment with a harsh observation: they still had not truly understood the miracle of the loaves, a comment that sounds almost like criticism of the group’s lack of spiritual perception.
  53. Marcos 6:53Gennesaret was a fertile region on the northwest shore of the Sea of Galilee, near Capernaum, where the boat finally lands after the rough crossing.
  54. Marcos 6:54As soon as they land, people recognize Jesus instantly — a sign of how far His fame had already spread throughout that whole area.
  55. Marcos 6:55The news runs quickly through the whole region, with people carrying the sick on mats to wherever they heard Jesus was.
  56. Marcos 6:56Touching just the edge of His garment directly recalls the earlier scene with the woman with the flow of blood, but now it becomes a widespread pattern: everyone who touched Him was healed, not an isolated case.

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