Mark 9:34 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³⁴But they held their peace: for by the way they had disputed among themselves, who should be the greatest.

Mark 9:34 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Mark 9:50
Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.
3 John 1:9
I wrote unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not.
Luke 22:24-30
And there was also a strife among them, which of them should be accounted the greatest. …
Romans 12:10
Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;
Matthew 18:1-5
At the same time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? …

Topics

Ambition Amusements and Worldly Pleasures Anger Care Carnal Mindedness Contention Covetousness Fasting

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 30-40)

Here, I. Christ foretels his own approaching sufferings. He passed through Galilee with more expedition than usual, and would not that any man should know of it (Mark 9:30); because he had done many mighty and good works among them in vain, they shall not be invited to see them and have the benefit of them, as they have been. The time of his sufferings drew nigh, and therefore he was willing to be…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 34)

34. But they held their peace: for by the way they had disputed among themselves, who should be the greatest--From Mt 18:1 we should infer that the subject was introduced, not by our Lord, but by the disciples themselves, who came and asked Jesus who should be greatest. Perhaps one or two of them first referred the matter to Jesus, who put them off till they should all be assembled together at Cap…