Commentaries on Mark 6:12

John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

And they went out,.... From that part of the country where they then were, some one way, and some another, two by two, with these instructions, and according to these directions; in order to preach the word, and work miracles, in the several parts where they were sent: and preached that men should repent; both of the evil practices which they were guilty of, and of the bad principles they had...

Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary

Matthew Henry

A great variety of observable passages we have, in this chapter, concerning our Lord Jesus, the substance of all which we had before in Matthew, but divers circumstances we have, which we did not there meet with. Here is, I. Christ contemned by his countrymen, because he was one of them, and they knew, or thought they knew, his original, ver. 1-6. II. The just power he gave his apostles over...