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Mar_11:15-19. See on Mat_21:12-17. Comp. Luk_19:45-48. Matthew deals with this partly by abbreviating, partly also by adding what is peculiar and certainly original (Mar_11:14-16).
ἤρξατο ἐκβάλλειν ] but afterwards: κατέστρεψε , so that thus the latter occurred after the beginning and before the ending of the expulsion.
Mar_11:16. ἵνα ] The object of the permission is conceived as its purpose. The form ἤφιε , as Mar_1:34.
διενέγκῃ σκεῦος διὰ τοῦ ἱεροῦ ] In the estimation also of the Rabbins it was accounted a desecration of the temple, if anybody carried the implements of common life ( σκεῦος , household furniture, pots, and the like) through the temple-enclosure, διὰ τοῦ ἱεροῦ (not ναοῦ ), in order to save himself a circuit; they extended this even to the synagogues. See Lightfoot, p. 632 f.; Wetstein in loc. Olshausen is mistaken in explaining διαφέρειν as to carry to and fro; and Kuinoel and Olshausen, following Beza and Grotius, arbitrarily limit σκεῦος to implements used for the purpose of gain.
Mar_11:17. ἐδίδασκε ] on what subject? What follows leaves no doubt as to the principal theme of this teaching.
πᾶσι τοῖς ἔθνεσιν ] Dativus commodi: (destined) for all nations,—which has reference in Isa_56:7 to the fact that even the strangers dwelling among the Israelites were to return with them to the Holy Land (Ezr_2:43 ff; Ezr_7:7; Neh_3:26; Neh_11:21), where they were to present their offerings in the temple (according to the Israelitish command, Lev_17:8 ff; Lev_22:19 ff.; Num_15:14 ff.). Only Mark (not Matthew and Luke) has taken up the πᾶσι τοῖς ἔθνεσιν from Isaiah, which probably has its reason not only in more careful quotation (Fritzsche, de Wette, Holtzmann, Bleek), but, inasmuch as it is an honourable mention of the Gentiles, in the Gentile-Christian interest, without, however, thereby indicating that Jesus had desired to announce the new spiritual temple of His church (Schenkel), which point of the action does not emerge in any of the evangelists, since they had failed to perceive it, or had suppressed it.
Mar_11:18. ἀπολέσωσιν ] (see the critical remarks): how they were to destroy Him, deliberative. The future of the Recepta (how they should destroy Him) would designate the realization as indubitable (the question only still remaining as to the kind and manner of the destruction). See Kühner, II. p. 489 f.; Stallbaum, ad Plat. Symp. p. 225 C.
ἐφοβοῦντο γὰρ αὐτόν ] The reason why they sought to destroy Him.
ἐπὶ τῇ διδαχῇ , αὐτοῦ ] which He, namely, had just set forth, Mar_11:17, after the cleansing of the temple. Baur arbitrarily suggests that Mark has dexterously inwoven the διδάσκειν from Luke.
ὅτε ὀψὲ ἐγένετο ] on that day, Mar_11:12; hence not ὅταν (see the critical remarks).