Commentaries on Mark 6:26

John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

And the king was exceeding sorry,.... [See comments on Matthew 14:9] yet for his oath's sake, [and] for their sakes which sat with him; as Matthew adds, "at meat", Matthew 14:9; for it seems as if supper was not over, when all this was transacting. He would not reject her; deny her her request, or send her away without granting it which could not be without grieving her, and treating her with...

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...