Mark Chapter 1 verse 10 Holy Bible
And straightway coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens rent asunder, and the Spirit as a dove descending upon him:
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And straight away, coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens broken open and the Spirit coming down on him as a dove:
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And straightway going up from the water, he saw the heavens parting asunder, and the Spirit, as a dove, descending upon him.
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And straightway coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens opened, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon him:
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Immediately coming up from the water, he saw the heavens parting, and the Spirit descending on him like a dove.
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and immediately coming up from the water, he saw the heavens dividing, and the Spirit as a dove coming down upon him;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 10. - Straightway (εὐθέως) coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens opened (σχιζομένους); literally, rent asunder. The word εὐθέως occurs more than forty times in this Gospel, and is so characteristic of St. Mark that, in the Revised Version, it is uniformly rendered by the same English synonym, "straightway." He saw. Elsewhere we are told (John 1:32) that St. John the Baptist saw this descent. The earliest heretics took advantage of this statement to represent this event as the descent of the eternal Christ upon the man Jesus for personal indwelling. Later critics have adopted this view. But it need hardly be said here that such an opinion is altogether inconsistent with all that we read elsewhere of the circumstances of the Incarnation, and of the intimate and indissoluble union of the Divine and human natures in the person of the one Christ, from the time of the "overshadowing of the Virgin Mary by the power of the Highest." The Spirit descending upon him at his baptism was not the descent of the eternal Christ upon the man Jesus. It was rather the conveyance to one who was already prepared for it as God and man, of office and authority as the great Prophet that should come into the world. St. Luke says particularly (Luke 3:21) that it was when Jesus had been baptized and was praying, that the Holy Spirit descended upon him; plainly showing us that it was not through the baptism of John, but through the meritorious obedience and the prayer of the Son of God, that the heavens were "rent asunder," and the Holy Spirit descended upon him.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(10) He saw the heavens opened.--Better, as in the margin, rent open, St. Mark's language here, as elsewhere, being more boldly vivid than that of the other Gospels. (See Notes on Matthew 3:16-17.)
