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Marcos 6

BLIVRE · Chapter 6/16

1[Jesus] partiu-se dali, veio à sua terra, e seus discípulos o seguiram.

2E chegando o sábado, começou a ensinar na sinagoga; e muitos, quando o ouviram, espantavam-se, dizendo: De onde lhe [vem] estas coisas? E que sabedoria é esta que lhe foi dada? E tais maravilhas feitas por suas mãos?

3Não é este o carpinteiro, filho de Maria, e irmão de Tiago, de José, de Judas, e de Simão? E não estão aqui as suas irmãs conosco? E ofenderam-se nele.

4E Jesus lhes dizia: Todo profeta tem honra, menos em sua terra, entre os parentes, e em sua própria casa.

5Ele não pôde ali fazer milagre algum, a não ser somente para uns poucos enfermos, sobre os quais pôs as mãos e os curou.

6E ficou admirado da incredulidade deles. Ele percorreu as aldeias do redor, ensinando.

7E chamou a si os doze, e começou a enviar de dois em dois; e deu-lhes poder sobre os espíritos imundos.

8E mandou-lhes que não tomassem nada para o caminho, a não ser somente um bordão; nem bolsa, nem pão, nem dinheiro no cinto;

9mas que calçassem sandálias, e não se vestissem de duas túnicas.

10E dizia-lhes: Onde quer que entrardes em alguma casa, ficai ali até que dali saiais.

11E todos os que não vos receberem, nem vos ouvirem, quando sairdes dali, sacudi o pó que estiver debaixo de vossos pés, em testemunho contra eles Em verdade vos digo, que mais tolerável será a [os de] Sodoma ou Gomorra no dia do juízo, do que a [os d] aquela cidade.

12Eles, então, se foram, e pregaram que [as pessoas] se arrependessem.

13Eles expulsaram muitos demônios, e a muitos enfermos ungiram com azeite, e os curaram.

14O rei Herodes ouviu falar disso (porque o nome de [Jesus] já era notório). E dizia: João Batista ressuscitou dos mortos, e por isso estas maravilhas operam nele.

15Outros diziam: É Elias; e outros diziam: É profeta, ou como algum dos profetas.

16Quando, porém, Herodes ouviu falar disso, falou: Ele é João, de quem cortei a cabeça. Ele ressuscitou dos mortos.

17Pois o próprio Herodes havia mandado prender João, e acorrentá-lo na prisão, por causa de Herodias, mulher do seu irmão Filipe, porque havia se casado com ela.

18Pois João dizia a Herodes: Não te é lícito possuir a mulher do teu irmão.

19Assim Herodias o odiava, e queria matá-lo, mas não podia,

20pois Herodes temia João, sabendo que era um homem justo e santo, e o estimava. E quando o ouvia, fazia muitas coisas, o ouvia de boa vontade.

21Mas veio um dia oportuno, em que Herodes, no dia do seu aniversário, dava uma ceia aos grandes de sua corte, aos comandantes militares, e aos principais da Galileia.

22Então a filha dessa Herodias entrou dançando, e agradou a Herodes e aos que estavam sentados com ele. O rei disse à garota: Pede-me quanto quiseres, que eu darei a ti.

23E jurou a ela: Tudo o que me pedirdes te darei, até a metade do meu reino.

24Então ela saiu, e perguntou à sua mãe: Que pedirei? E ela respondeu: A cabeça de João Batista.

25E entrando ela logo apressadamente ao rei, pediu, dizendo: Quero que imediatamente me dês num prato a cabeça de João Batista.

26E o rei entristeceu-se muito; [mas] , por causa dos juramentos, e dos que estavam juntamente à mesa, não quis recusar a ela.

27Então logo o rei enviou o executor com a ordem de trazer ali sua cabeça. Ele, foi, e o decapitou na prisão.

28Em seguida, trouxe a sua cabeça num prato, e o deu à garota; e a garota a deu à sua mãe.

29Quando os discípulos dele ouviram isso, vieram, pegaram o seu cadáver, e o puseram num sepulcro.

30Os apóstolos juntaram-se [de volta] a Jesus, e contaram-lhe tudo, tanto o que haviam feito, como o que haviam ensinado.

31E ele lhes disse: Vinde vós à parte a um lugar deserto, e descansai um pouco; pois havia muitos que iam e vinham, e não tinham tempo para comer.

32E foram-se num barco a um lugar deserto à parte.

33Mas as multidões os viram ir, e muitos o reconheceram. Então correram para lá a pé de todas as cidades, chegaram antes deles, e vieram para perto dele.

34Quando Jesus saiu [do barco] , viu uma grande multidão, e teve compaixão deles porque eram como ovelhas que não têm pastor. Assim, começou a lhes ensinar muitas coisas.

35E quando já era tarde, os seus discípulos vieram a ele, e disseram: O lugar é deserto, e a hora já é tarde.

36Despede-os, para eles irem aos campos e aldeias circunvizinhos, e comprarem pão para si; pois não têm o que comer.

37Mas ele respondeu: Dai-lhes vós mesmos de comer. E eles lhe responderam: Iremos, e compraremos duzentos denários de pão, para lhes darmos de comer?

38E ele lhes disse: Quantos pães tendes? Ide ver. Quando souberam, disseram: Cinco, e dois peixes.

39E mandou-lhes que fizessem sentar a todos em grupos sobre a grama verde.

40E sentaram-se repartidos de cem em cem, e de cinquenta em cinquenta.

41Ele tomou os cinco pães e os dois peixes, levantou os olhos ao céu, abençoou, e partiu os pães, e os deu aos seus discípulos, para que os pusessem diante deles. E os dois peixes repartiu com todos.

42Todos comeram e se saciaram.

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

44Os que comeram os pães eram quase cinco mil homens.

45Logo depois, ordenou seus discípulos a subirem no barco, e ir adiante para o outro lado, em Betsaida, enquanto ele despedia a multidão.

46E, depois de os despedir, foi ao monte para orar.

47Ao anoitecer, o barco estava no meio do mar, e [Jesus] sozinho em terra.

48E viu que se cansavam muito remando, porque o vento lhes era contrário. Então, perto da quarta vigília da noite, veio a eles andando sobre o mar, e queria passar por eles.

49Mas quando eles o viram andando sobre o mar, pensaram que era uma fantasma, e gritaram,

50pois todos o viam, e ficaram perturbados. Então logo falou com eles, dizendo: Tende coragem! Sou eu, não tenhais medo.

51E subiu a eles no barco, e o vento se aquietou. Eles ficaram muito espantados e maravilhados entre si,

52pois não haviam entendido o que tinha acontecido com os pães, porque o coração deles estava endurecido.

53Eles terminaram de atravessar o mar, chegaram à terra de Genesaré, e ali aportaram.

54Quando eles saíram do barco, logo [as pessoas] o reconheceram.

55Então gente de toda a região em redor veio correndo, e começaram a trazer em camas os doentes, aonde quer que ouviam que ele estava.

56E aonde quer que ele entrava, em povoados, cidades, ou aldeias, colocavam os enfermos nas praças, e rogavam-lhe que ao menos tocassem a borda de sua roupa; e todos os que o tocavam ficavam sarados.

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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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