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Mar_3:22-30. See on Mat_12:24-32, who narrates more completely from the collection of Logia and historical tradition. Comp. Luk_11:15-23; Luk_12:10.
And the scribes, etc., asserted a still worse charge.
Mar_3:23. προσκαλεσόμ . αὐτούς ] De Wette is of opinion, without warrant, that this could only have taken place in the open air, not in the house (Mar_3:20). They were in the house along with, but further away from, Jesus; He calls them to Him to speak with them.
σατανᾶς σατανᾶν ] not: one Satan … the other, but: Satan … himself; see on Mat_12:26. Comp. ὁ σατανᾶς … ἐφʼ ἑαυτόν , Mar_3:26. The want of the article with the proper name is not opposed to this.
Mar_3:24. Now, in order to make good this πῶς δύναται , (i.e. οὐ δύναται κ . τ . λ .), there come, linked on by the simple and (not γάρ ), two illustrative analogues ( ἐν παραβολαῖς ), after which at Mar_3:26, but likewise by the simple and, not by a particle of inference, is added the point, quod erat demonstrandum. This symmetrical progression by means of καί is rhetorical; it has something in it impressive, striking—a feature also presenting itself in the discourse as it proceeds asyndetically in Mar_3:27-28.
Mar_3:28. The order of the words: πόντα ἀφεθ . τοῖς υἱοῖς τῶν ἀνθρώπων τὰ ἁμαρτήματα , places them so apart, as to lay a great emphasis on πάντα . See Bornemann and Herbst, ad Xen. Mem. ii. 10. 2. The expression τοῖς υἱοῖς τ . ἀνθρ ., not a singular reminiscence from Mat_12:32 (Weiss), is rather a trait of Mark, depicting human weakness.
αἰωνίου ἁμαρτ .] namely, in respect of the guilt, “nunquam delendi,” Beza.
Mar_3:30. ὅτι ἔλεγον : (He spake thus) because they said. Comp. Luk_11:18.
πνεῦμα ἀκάθαρτον ] not again as at Mar_3:22 : Βεελζεβοὺλ ἔχει , because of the contrast with πνεῦμα τὸ ἄγιον . The less is it to be said that Mark places on a par the blasphemy against the person of Jesus (Mat_12:31 f.) and that against the Holy Spirit (Köstlin, p. 318), or that he has “already given up” the former blasphemy (Hilgenfeld). It is included, in fact, in Mar_3:28.