Verse 2Mary Magdalene - Or Mary of Magdala, a town in Galilee: probably the person mentioned in the last chapter. Verse 4Mt 13:1; Mr 4:1. Verse 15Who - keep it - Not like the highway side: And bring forth fruit - Not like the thorny ground: With perseverance - Not like the stony. Verse 16No man having lighted a candle - As if ho had said, And let your good fruit appear openly. Mt 5:15; Mr 4:21; Lu 11:33. Verse 17For nothing is hid - Strive not to conceal it at all; for you can conceal nothing long. Mt 10:26; Mr 4:22; Lu 12:2. Verse 18The word commonly translated seemeth, wherever it occurs, does not weaken, but greatly strengthens the sense. Mt 13:12; Mr 4:25; Lu 19:26. Verse 19Mt 12:46; Mr 3:31. Verse 22Mt 8:23; Mr 4:35. Verse 26Mt 8:28; Mr 5:1. Verse 29For many times it had caught him - Therefore our compassionate Lord made the more haste to cast him out. Verse 31The abyss - That is, the bottomless pit. Verse 32To enter into the swine - Not that they were any easier in the swine than out of them. Had it been so, they would not so soon have dislodged themselves, by destroying the herd. Verse 37Mt 9:1; Mr 5:18. Verse 40Mr 5:21. Verse 52She is not dead but sleepeth - Her soul is not separated finally from the body; and this short separation is rather to be called sleep than death.