Answer me (αποκριθητε μο). This sharp demand for a reply is only in Mark. See also verse 29. Jesus has a right to take this turn b…

And they come again to Jerusalem.—See Notes on Matthew 21:23-27. Peculiar to St. Mark is the fact that our Lord was “walk…

Theophylact of Ohrid: They were angry with the Lord for having cast out of the temple those who had made it a place of merc…

As Jesus often did, he answered a question by asking another one: whether John’s mission (expressed by the word “baptism”) was from God (“heaven”) …

The baptism of John
The doctrine of which he was the first preacher, and the ordinance of which he was the first adm…

Our Savior shows how closely related His doctrine and baptism were to those of John; they had the same design and tendency, to bring in the gospel …