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Mark 6:13

They forced many demons out of people and put olive oil on many who were sick and healed them.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Anointing;   Jesus, the Christ;   Thompson Chain Reference - Anointing;   Disease;   Health-Disease;   Oil;   Prevention and Cure of Diseases;   Remedies;   The Topic Concordance - Disciples/apostles;   Healing;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Anointing;   Diseases;   Oil;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Anointing;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Apostle;   Demons;   Oil;   Unclean spirits;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Unction;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Anoint;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Oil;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Apostles;   Disciples;   Diseases;   Exorcism;   Healing, Divine;   Mark, the Gospel of;   Ointment;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Exorcism;   Jesus Christ;   Prayer;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Anointing;   Anointing (2);   Authority of Christ;   Church (2);   Discourse;   Gestures;   Gifts;   Oil ;   Oil (Olive);   Organization (2);   Salvation;   Sickness;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Anointing;   New Testament;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Anointing;   Apostle;   Chief parables and miracles in the bible;   Oil;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Anointing,;   Oil;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Anoint;   Demon;   Healing, Gifts of;   Oil;   Sick;   Spit;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Anointing;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
They drove out many demons, anointed many sick people with oil and healed them.
King James Version (1611)
And they cast out many deuils, and anointed with oyle many, that were sicke, and healed them.
King James Version
And they cast out many devils, and anointed with oil many that were sick, and healed them.
English Standard Version
And they cast out many demons and anointed with oil many who were sick and healed them.
New American Standard Bible
And they were casting out many demons and were anointing with oil many sick people and healing them.
New Century Version
They forced many demons out and put olive oil on many sick people and healed them.
Amplified Bible
And they were casting out many demons and were anointing with oil many who were sick, and healing them.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
And they were casting out many demons and were anointing with oil many sick people and healing them.
Legacy Standard Bible
And they were casting out many demons and were anointing with oil many sick people and healing them.
Berean Standard Bible
They also drove out many demons and healed many of the sick, anointing them with oil.
Contemporary English Version
They forced out many demons and healed a lot of sick people by putting olive oil on them.
Complete Jewish Bible
they expelled many demons, and they anointed many sick people with oil and healed them.
Darby Translation
and they cast out many demons, and anointed with oil many infirm, and healed them.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And they cast out many deuils: and they anointed many that were sicke, with oyle, and healed them.
George Lamsa Translation
And they cast out many demons, and anointed with oil many who were sick, and they were healed.
Good News Translation
They drove out many demons, and rubbed olive oil on many sick people and healed them.
Lexham English Bible
And they were expelling many demons and anointing many sick people with olive oil and healing them.
Literal Translation
And they cast out many demons, and anointed with oil and healed many sick ones.
American Standard Version
And they cast out many demons, and anointed with oil many that were sick, and healed them.
Bible in Basic English
And they sent out a number of evil spirits, and put oil on a great number who were ill, and made them well.
Hebrew Names Version
They cast out many demons, and anointed many with oil who were sick, and healed them.
International Standard Version
They also kept driving out many demons and pouring oil on many who were sick and healing them.James 5:14;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
And many devils they cast out, and anointed with oil the sick, and healed many.
Murdock Translation
And they cast out many demons, and many of the sick they anointed with oil, and healed them.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And they cast out many deuyls, and annoynted many that were sicke, with oyle, and healed them.
English Revised Version
And they cast out many devils, and anointed with oil many that were sick, and healed them.
World English Bible
They cast out many demons, and anointed many with oil who were sick, and healed them.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And they cast out many devils, and anointed with oil many that were sick and healed them.
Weymouth's New Testament
Many demons they expelled, and many invalids they anointed with oil and cured.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thei castiden out many feendis, and anoyntiden with oyle many sijk men, and thei weren heelid.
Update Bible Version
And they cast out many demons, and anointed with oil many that were sick, and healed them.
Webster's Bible Translation
And they cast out many demons, and anointed with oil many that were sick, and healed [them].
New English Translation
They cast out many demons and anointed many sick people with oil and healed them.
New King James Version
And they cast out many demons, and anointed with oil many who were sick, and healed them.
New Living Translation
And they cast out many demons and healed many sick people, anointing them with olive oil.
New Life Bible
They put out many demons. They poured oil on many people that were sick and healed them.
New Revised Standard
They cast out many demons, and anointed with oil many who were sick and cured them.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and, many demons, were they casting out, - and were anointing with oil, many sick, and were curing them.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And they cast out many devils, and anointed with oil many that were sick, and healed them.
Revised Standard Version
And they cast out many demons, and anointed with oil many that were sick and healed them.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
and they caste out many devylles. And they annoynted many that were sicke with oyle and healed them.
Young's Literal Translation
and many demons they were casting out, and they were anointing with oil many infirm, and they were healing [them].
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and they cast out many deuyls: and many that were sicke anoynted they with oyle, and healed the.
Mace New Testament (1729)
they dispossess'd a great number of demons. many, that were sick, they anointed with oil, and restor'd their health.
Simplified Cowboy Version
They cast out many demons that were hurting people and put a little dab of oil on people's heads to show that they ride for God. Many folks were healed.

Contextual Overview

7 Jesus called his twelve apostles together. He sent them out in groups of two and gave them power over evil spirits. 8 This is what he told them: "Take nothing for your trip except a stick for walking. Take no bread, no bag, and no money. 9 You can wear sandals, but don't take extra clothes. 10 When you enter a house, stay there until you leave that town. 11 If any town refuses to accept you or refuses to listen to you, then leave that town and shake the dust off your feet as a warning to them." 12 The apostles left and went to other places. They talked to the people and told them to change their hearts and lives. 13 They forced many demons out of people and put olive oil on many who were sick and healed them.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

cast: Mark 6:7, Luke 10:17

anointed: James 5:14, James 5:15

Reciprocal: Mark 5:23 - lay thy hands Luke 9:6 - General Luke 10:9 - heal 1 Corinthians 12:9 - the gifts

Cross-References

Genesis 6:1
The number of people on earth continued to increase. When these people had daughters, the sons of God saw how beautiful they were. So they chose the women they wanted. They married them, and the women had their children. Then the Lord said, "People are only human. I will not let my Spirit be troubled by them forever. I will let them live only 120 years." During this time and also later, the Nephilim people lived in the land. They have been famous as powerful soldiers since ancient times.
Genesis 6:6
The Lord was sorry that he had made people on the earth. It made him very sad in his heart.
Genesis 6:7
So the Lord said, "I will destroy all the people I created on the earth. I will destroy every person and every animal and everything that crawls on the earth. And I will destroy all the birds in the air, because I am sorry that I have made them."
Genesis 6:10
Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Genesis 6:11
When God looked at the earth, he saw that people had ruined it. Violence was everywhere, and it had ruined their life on earth.
Genesis 7:23
In this way God wiped the earth clean—he destroyed every living thing on the earth—every human, every animal, everything that crawls, and every bird. All that was left was Noah and his family and the animals that were with him in the boat.
Genesis 49:5
"Simeon and Levi are brothers. They are violent with their swords.
Jeremiah 51:13
Babylon, you live near much water. You are rich with treasures, but your end as a nation has come. It is time for you to be destroyed.
Amos 8:2
He said to me, "Amos, what do you see?" I said, "A basket of summer fruit." Then the Lord said to me, "The end has come to my people Israel. I will not ignore their sins anymore.
Hebrews 11:7
Noah was warned by God about things that he could not yet see. But he had faith and respect for God, so he built a large boat to save his family. With his faith, Noah showed that the world was wrong. And he became one of those who are made right with God through faith.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they cast out many devils,.... Which they had power given them to do; and this they did, in confirmation of their mission and doctrine, and for the benefit of miserable creatures, who were possessed by them; and to show their power over the devils, and as a prelude of what they were to be the instruments of, in casting Satan out of the souls of men, both Jews and Gentiles; and especially, in the ejection of him out of the Gentile world:

and anointed with oil many that were sick, and healed them. This they were doubtless directed to by Christ, as an outward sign of healing; but not as a medicine; otherwise there would have been no miracle in the cure: though it is certain, the Jews used anointing with oil medicinally in many cases, as the means of healing; but they did not always succeed, as the apostles did: on the day of atonement w,

"it was not lawful to "anoint" part of the body, as the whole body; but if a man was sick, or had ulcers on his head, he might anoint according to his usual way, and no notice was taken of it.''

Again x,

"a man may not anoint with wine, or vinegar, but he may anoint with oil: he that has a pain in his head, or has ulcers upon him, סך שמן, "he may anoint with oil", but he may not anoint with wine and vinegar: wine of the second tithe, which they mix, is forbidden to anoint with; oil of the second tithe, which they mix, is lawful to anoint with.''

And it is elsewhere said y, that

"R. Meir allowed of the mixing of oil and wine, לסוך לחולה, "to anoint the sick" on a sabbath; but when he was sick, and we sought to do so to him, he would not suffer us.''

But that oil was used by the apostles as a medicine for the healing of diseases, cannot well be thought; since oil, though it may be useful in some cases, it is not an universal medicine, which is proper to all; nor were the apostles instructed by Christ in the art of physic, but were possessed by him with extraordinary gifts, to cure the disorders of the body, for the confirmation of the Gospel, which they preached; and it is easy to observe, that healing the sick by anointing with oil, is joined with the extraordinary power of casting out devils; and it was the same power by which they performed the one, as the other; see Luke 9:1. Hence it appears, that this passage gives no countenance to the use of such a practice in our days; since these were apostles only, who used it, who were extraordinary persons, and whose office in the church was an extraordinary one, and is now ceased; and healing in this way, was by an extraordinary power bestowed upon them, which has ceased; and therefore the rite, or ceremony of anointing with oil, for such a purpose, should be of course discontinued; however, it cannot be supported by this instance, whatever countenance it may seem to have from James 5:14, for it must be owned, there is some difference in the passages: the persons that anointed here were apostles, there the elders of the church; the persons anointed there, were good people, the members of the church, but here any sort of persons, and chiefly, if not altogether unbelievers; the healing of them is ascribed to the prayer of faith in James, but here to the extraordinary power of the apostles, by anointing with oil; though it may be, the healing was equally miraculous in the one, as the other: but be this as it will, nothing can be concluded from hence, in favour of the sacrament of extreme unction, used by the Papists; who administer that to persons, just at the point of death, and that for the remission of their sins, and the saving of their souls; whereas oil was used by the apostles to sick persons, and for the recovery of their bodily health. But since these were extraordinary cures which they performed this way, why did they make use of oil at all, seeing the virtue of healing did not come from that, and they could as well have healed sicknesses without it, as with it? To which it may be replied, that they did not always make use of it; sometimes only words were expressed, sometimes only hands were laid on the sick, and sometimes the sick persons were healed by handkerchiefs and aprons taken from them; which show, that the "healing" virtue was not in the means, nor was it tied to any: moreover, this was only used as an outward sign of healing, and might have some spiritual significancy in it; it might show, that they were sent forth by Christ the anointed one, who is anointed with the oil of gladness above his fellows; it might be symbolical of the grace of the Spirit, which is often compared to oil, which they themselves were possessed of in a large measure, and which is communicated through the ministration of the Gospel; and it might be significative of the Gospel itself, which brings light and joy, health and comfort along with it, to the souls of men, which they were the happy messengers of.

w T. Bab. Yoma, fol. 77. 2. Maimon. Hikh. Shebitat Ashur, c. 3. sect. 9. x T. Hieros. Maaser Sheni, fol. 53. 2. y Ib. Betacot, fol. 3. 1. & Sabbat, fol. 14. 3.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Cast out many devils - See the notes at Matthew 4:24.

And anointed with oil ... - Anointing with oil was in common use among the Jews in cases of sickness. It was supposed to have a mild, soothing, and alleviating effect on the body. In James 5:14, the elders of the church, in connection with prayer, were directed also to anoint the sick with “oil.” See the notes at that passage. It was also used in wounds. See the notes at Isaiah 1:6. The good Samaritan poured oil and wine into the wounds of the waylaid Jew, Luke 10:34. Josephus says that, in the last sickness of Herod, his physicians commanded him to be anointed with oil. It need not be supposed, however, that the apostles used oil for mere “medical” purposes. It was used, probably, like the imposition of hands, or like our Saviour’s anointing the eyes of the blind with clay; also as a sign, in expectation of imparting that aid and comfort from God which was sought, and which was “represented” by the soothing and gentle effect of oil.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Mark 6:13. Anointed with oil many that were sick — This is only spoken of here, and in James 5:14. This ceremony was in great use among the Jews; and in certain cases it might be profitable. But in the cases mentioned here, which were merely miraculous, it could avail no more of itself than the imposition of hands. It was used symbolically, as an emblem of that ease, comfort, and joy, which they prayed God to impart to the sick. For various examples of its use among the Jews, see Lightfoot and Wetstein on this place.


 
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