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Mar_11:25-26. Comp. Mat_6:14 f. To the exhortation to confidence in prayer, according to Mark, Jesus links on another principal requisite of being heard—namely, the necessity of forgiving in order to obtain forgiveness. And how appropriate is this to guard against a false conclusion from the occurrence with the fig-tree! Nevertheless (in opposition to Holtzmann) it is hardly here original, but introduced[145] into this connection by Mark from the collection of Logia in the way of thoughtful redaction, not of unadjusted insertion (Hilgenfeld).
στήκετε ] Comp. on ἑστῶτες , Mat_6:5. The indication is not incorrect, but ἄν has its relation merely to the particle ὅτε , and does not affect the verb; see on Mar_3:11.
Mar_11:26. Observe the antithesis, in which οὐκ (not μή , as in Matthew) is closely associated with ἀφίετε and constitutes with it one idea (Hermann, ad Vig. p. 831; Winer, p. 423 f. [E. T. 597 f.]; Buttmann, neut. Gr. p. 297 [E. T. 346]).
[145] Which, however, is not, with Weiss in the Jahrb. f. D. Theol. 1864, p. 63, to be supported by the argument that Mark has nowhere else the expression: ὁ πατὴρ ὁ ἐν τοῖς οὐρ . For Mark has no place at all, in which this designation would have been applicable instead of another that he has used.