Quotes & Notes on:
Mark 3:14
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John Wesley's Notes:
(No comment on this verse)
- Treasury of Scripture Knowledge:
* he ordained. Joh 15:16; Ac 1:24,25; Ga 1:1,15-20
* and. Lu 9:1-6; 10:1-11; 24:47; Ac 1:8
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Adam Clarke's Commentary:
He ordained twelve]  , he
made twelve. Here is nothing of what we call ordaining. Christ simply
appointed them to be with him; and that he might send them occasionally
to preach, &c.
To preach] The Codex Bezae, Saxon, and all the Itala, except one, add to
 , the Gospel.
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Family Bible Notes:
(No comment on this verse)
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1599 Geneva Bible Notes:
The twelve apostles are set apart to be trained for the
office of the apostleship.Chose and appointed twelve to be familiar and
well acquainted with him.
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People's New Testament Commentary:
They were to attend him into order to be specially prepared to preach
Christ.
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Robertson's Word Pictures:
He appointed twelve (epoiêsen dôdeka). This was
a second selection out of those invited to the hills and after the night
of prayer and after day came (Lu 6:13). Why he chose twelve we are not
told, probably because there were twelve tribes in Israel. It was a good
round number at any rate. They were to be princes in the new Israel (cf.
Mt 19:28; Lu 22:30; Re 1:1-22:21; 21:14,15). Luke (Lu 6:13-16) also
gives the list of the twelve at this point while Matthew (Mt 10:1-4)
postpones giving the names till they are sent out in Galilee. There is a
fourth list in Ac 1:13. See discussion of the names of the apostles on
"Mt 10:1" and pp. 271-3 of my Harmony of the Gospels for Students of the
Life of Christ. The three groups of four begin alike (Simon, Philip,
James). There are some difficulties. Whom he also named apostles (hous
kai apostolous ônomasen). Margin of Revised Version, the text of
Westcott and Hort after Aleph, B, C, etc. Genuine in Lu 6:13 and
probably so here. The meaning is that Jesus himself gave the name
apostle or missionary (apostellô, to send) to this group of twelve. The
word is applied in the New Testament to others besides as delegates or
messengers of churches (2Co 8:23; Php 2:25), and messenger (Joh 13:16).
It is applied also to Paul on a par with the twelve (Ga 1:1,11, etc.)
and also to Barnabas (Ac 14:14), and perhaps also to Timothy and Silas
(1Ti 2:6ff.). Two purposes of Jesus are mentioned by Mark in the choice
of these twelve, that they might be with him (hina ôsin met' autou), and
that he might send them forth (kai hina apostellêi autous). They were
not ready to be sent forth till they had been with Jesus for some time.
This is one of the chief tasks of Christ to train this group of men. See
Bruce's The Training of the Twelve. The very word apostolos is from
apostellô. There were two purposes in sending them forth expressed by
two infinitives, one to preach (kêrussein, from kêrux, herald), the
other to have power to cast out demons (echein exousian ekballein ta
daimonia). This double ministry of preaching and healing was to mark
their work. The two things are, however, different, and one does not
necessarily involve the other.
Albert Barnes' Commentary:
The word rendered ordained, here, does not express our notion of
ordination to the ministry. It means, literally, "he made," or he
appointed twelve to be with him.
Twelve. The reason why twelve were chosen was, probably, that such a
number would be deemed competent witnesses of what they saw; that so
many could not be supposed to be imposed upon; that they could not be
easily charged with being excited by sympathy, or being deluded, as a
multitude might; and that, being destined to go into all the world, a
considerable number seemed indispensable. Perhaps, also, there was some
reference to the fact that twelve was the number of the tribes of
Israel.
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Jamieson-Faussett Brown:
(No comment on this verse)
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Spurgeon Commentary:
(No comment on this verse)
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William Burkitt's Notes:
(No comment on this verse)
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary:
(No comment on this verse)
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The Fourfold Gospel:
We can not think that the number twelve was adopted carelessly. It
unquestionably had reference to the twelve tribes of Israel, over whom
the apostles were to be tribal judges or viceroys (Lu 22:30), and we
find the tribes and apostles associated together in the structure of the
New Jerusalem (Re 21:12-14). Moreover, Paul seems to regard the twelve
as ministers to the twelve tribes, or to the circumcision, rather than
as ministers to the Gentiles or the world in general (Ga 2:7-9). See
also Jas 1:1; 1Pe 1:1. The tribal reference was doubtless preserved to
indicate that the church would be God's new Israel.
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