Mark 6:15

Others said, That it is Elias. And others said, That it is a prophet, or as one of the prophets.

King James Version · Read in your translation · Open the Explore console

Word by word — the Greek

Word	Greek	Strong’s	Meaning
Others	ἄλλοι alloi	G243	"else · adjective — nominative plural masculine
said	ἔλεγον elegon	G3004	properly · verb — imperfect active indicative, 3rd person plural
That	ὅτι hoti	G3754	demonstrative · conjunction
is	ἐστί estí	G2076	he (she or it) is
Elias	Ἠλίας Ēlias	G2243	Helias (i.e. Elijah) · noun — nominative singular masculine, a proper name
And	δὲ de	G1161	but · conjunction
others	ἄλλοι alloi	G243	"else · adjective — nominative plural masculine
said	ἔλεγον elegon	G3004	properly · verb — imperfect active indicative, 3rd person plural
That	ὅτι hoti	G3754	demonstrative · conjunction
is	ἐστί estí	G2076	he (she or it) is
prophet	προφήτης prophētēs	G4396	a foreteller ("prophet") · noun — nominative singular masculine
or	ἢ ē	G2228	disjunctive · conjunction
as	ὡς hōs	G5613	which how · particle
one	εἷς heis	G1520	one · adjective — nominative singular masculine
prophets	προφητῶν. prophētōn	G4396	a foreteller ("prophet") · noun — genitive plural masculine

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Malachi 4:5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
Matthew 16:14 And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets.
Matthew 21:11 And the multitude said, This is Jesus the prophet of Nazareth of Galilee.
Mark 8:28 And they answered, John the Baptist: but some say, Elias; and others, One of the prophets.
Matthew 17:10-11 And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elias must first come?
Mark 9:12-13 And he answered and told them, Elias verily cometh first, and restoreth all things; and how it is written of the Son of man, that he must su…
Mark 15:35-36 And some of them that stood by, when they heard it, said, Behold, he calleth Elias.
Luke 1:17 And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the w…

Cross-references from OpenBible.info (CC BY), in the lineage of the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain).

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Mark 6:14-29

Here is, I. The wild notions that the people had concerning our Lord Jesus, Mar 6:15. His own countrymen could believe nothing great concerning him, because they knew his poor kindred; but others that were not under the power of that prejudice against him, were yet willing to believe any thing rather than the truth - that he was the Son of God, and the true Messias: they said, He is Elias, whom they expected; or, He is a prophet, one of the Old Testament prophets raised to life, and returned to this world; or as one of the prophets, a prophet now newly raised up, equal to those under the Old Testament. II. The opinion of Herod concerning him. He heard of his name and fame, of what he said an…

Read the whole note in the console

Adam Clarke on Mark 6:15

Or, as one of the prophets - η, or, is omitted by ABCEGHKLMS - BHV, and one hundred others, Syriac, all the Arabic, all the Persic, Coptic, Ethiopic, Gothic, Slavonic, Vulgate, two Itala, Origen, Victor, and Theophylact. Bengel, Wetstein, and Griesbach leave it out of the text: the omission of it mends the sense much.

John Gill on Mark 6:15

Others said that it is Elias,.... This was the opinion, either of many of the Jews, who expected that Elias the Tishbite would come in person, before the coming of the Messiah; and thought by the appearance and wonderful works of Jesus, that he was now come: or of Herod's courtiers, who said this to divert him from his notion of John the Baptist, which they might perceive was very distressing to him; though the former seems rather to be the sense: others said, that it is a prophet: or "the prophet", that was to come, whom Moses had spoken of, and the Jews expected; this was the opinion of others of them: or as one of the prophets. The word "or", is left out in some copies; and so it is in…

Read the whole note in the console

John Calvin on Mark 6:14-16

Mark 6:14-16 Matthew 14:1-2 Mark 6:14-16 Luke 9:7-9 1. At that time, Herod the tetrarch heard of the fame of Jesus, 2. And said to his servants, This is John the Baptist: he is raised from the dead, and therefore miracles work in him. 14. And king Herod heard of him, (for his name had become celebrated,) and said, John, who baptized, hath risen from the dead, and therefore miracles are performed by him. 15. Others said, It is Elijah; and others said, It is a prophet, or as one of the prophets. 16. But when Herod heard that, he said, It is John whom I beheaded, he hath rasen from the dead. 7. Now Herod the tetrarch heard of all that was done by him, and was perplexed, because it was sai…

The Church Fathers

(Vict. Ant. e Cat. in Marc.) It seems to me that this prophet means that one of whom Moses said, God will raise up a prophet unto thee of thy brethren. (Deut. 8:15.) They were right indeed, but because they feared to say openly, This is the Christ, they used the voice of Moses, veiling their own surmise through fear of their rulers.
— Pseudo-Chrysostom ((as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)), Catena Aurea by Aquinas

The Church Fathers: public-domain translations (Ante-Nicene and Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers), verse-indexed by SermonIndex (CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary and topics

Machaerus — The Black Fortress, was built by Herod the Great in the gorge of Callirhoe, one of the wadies 9 miles east of the Dead Sea, as a frontier rampart against Arab marauders. John the Baptist was probably…
Salome — Perfect. (1.) The wife of Zebedee and mother of James and John (Mat. 27:56), and probably the sister of Mary, the mother of our Lord (John 19:25). She sought for her sons places of honour in Christ’s…

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Word by word — the Greek

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Mark 6:14-29

Adam Clarke on Mark 6:15

John Gill on Mark 6:15

John Calvin on Mark 6:14-16

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Word by word — the Greek

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Mark 6:14-29

Adam Clarke on Mark 6:15

John Gill on Mark 6:15

John Calvin on Mark 6:14-16

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Mark 6:15