Mark 5:37

And he suffered no man to follow him, save Peter, and James, and John the brother of James.
KJV

καὶ οὐκ ἀφῆκεν οὐδένα μετ’ αὐτοῦ συνακολουθῆσαι εἰ μὴ τὸν Πέτρον καὶ Ἰάκωβον καὶ Ἰωάννην τὸν ἀδελφὸν Ἰακώβου.
Greek NT

Et non admisit quemquam se sequi nisi Petrum, et Jacobum, et Joannem fratrem Jacobi.
Vulgate

And he suffered no man to follow with him, save Peter, and James, and John the brother of James.
ASV

And he admitted not any man to follow him, but Peter, and James, and John the brother of James.
Douay-Rheims

Open in reader with connections →

In this verse

People Peter James John James James

In the original Greek

14 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

Πέτρος

petros

noun · 154×

αὐτός

autos

pronoun · 5564×

εἰ

conditional · 491×

καί

kai

conjunction · 8973×

μή

particle · 1033×

μετά

Textual variants

2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

minor

SBLGNT: μετ᾽ αὐτοῦ | WH/Treg/NIV: μετ᾽ αὐτοῦ | RP: αὐτῷ

μετ᾽ αὐτοῦ — SBLGNT
μετ᾽ αὐτοῦ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
αὐτῷ — Robinson-Pierpont

source: sblgnt-apparatus

trivial

SBLGNT: τὸν | WH/Treg/NIV: τὸν

τὸν — SBLGNT
τὸν — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)

source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Catechism of the Catholic Church

§994But there is more. Jesus links faith in the resurrection to his own person: "I am the Resurrection and the life."542 It is Jesus himself who on the last day will raise up those who have believed in him, who have eaten his body and drunk his blood.543 Already now in this present life he gives a sign and pledge of this by restoring some of the dead to life,544 announcing thereby …

Homilies on Matthew

2. And, behold, it is said, a woman that had an issue of blood twelve years, came behind Him, and touched the hem of His garment. For she said within herself, If I may but touch His garment, I shall be whole. Wherefore did she not approach Him boldly? She was ashamed on account of her affliction, accounting herself to be unclean. For if the menstruous woman was judged not to be…

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Cross-references

2Cor 13:1 — This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.
Acts 9:40 — But Peter put them all forth, and kneeled down, and prayed; and turning him to the body said, Tabitha, arise. And she opened her eyes: and when she saw Peter, she sat up.
Mark 1:19 — And when he had gone a little farther thence, he saw James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, who also were in the ship mending their nets.
Mark 3:17 — And James the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James; and he surnamed them Boanerges, which is, The sons of thunder:
Mark 9:2 — And after six days Jesus taketh with him Peter, and James, and John, and leadeth them up into an high mountain apart by themselves: and he was transfigured before them.
Mark 9:2 — And after six days Jesus taketh with him Peter, and James, and John, and leadeth them up into an high mountain apart by themselves: and he was transfigured before them.
Mark 14:33 — And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy;
Mark 14:33 — And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy;
Matt 17:1 — And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart,
Matt 26:37 — And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy.