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Mark 1:21 KJV
Mark · chapter 1 · verse 21
And they went into Capernaum; and straightway on the sabbath day he entered into the synagogue, and taught.Mark 1:21 · King James Version
Mark 1:21 in context
19And when he had gone a little farther thence, he saw James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, who also were in the ship mending their nets.
20And straightway he called them: and they left their father Zebedee in the ship with the hired servants, and went after him.
21And they went into Capernaum; and straightway on the sabbath day he entered into the synagogue, and taught.
22And they were astonished at his doctrine: for he taught them as one that had authority, and not as the scribes.
23And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; and he cried out,
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- straightwayeutheōsstraightway, immediately, forthwithG2112 →
- CapernaumkapharnaoumCapernaum = " village of comfort" , a flourishing city of Galilee situated on the…G2584 →
- synagoguesynagōgēa bringing together, gathering , a contracting, in the NT, an assembling together of men…G4864 →
- enteredeiserchomaito go out or come in to enter, of men or animals, as into a house or a city, of Satan…G1525 →
- wenteisporeuomaito go into, enter, of persons, of things, to be carried into or put into, as food into a…G1531 →
- daysabbatonthe seventh day of each week which was a sacred festival on which the Israelites were…G4521 →
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Here is, I. A general account of Christ's preaching in Galilee. John gives an account of his preaching in Judea, before this (ch. 2 and 3), which the other evangelists had omitted, who chiefly relate what occurred in Galilee, because that was least known at Jerusalem. Observe, 1. When Jesus began to preach in Galilee;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 14-22