马可福音 9:40

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

不反對我們的，就是贊成我們的。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
不 敌 挡 我 们 的 ， 就 是 帮 助 我 们 的 。

Contextual Overview

³⁰ Then Jesus and his followers left that place and went through Galilee. He didn't want anyone to know where he was, ³¹ because he was teaching his followers. He said to them, "The Son of Man will be handed over to people, and they will kill him. After three days, he will rise from the dead." ³² But the followers did not understand what Jesus meant, and they were afraid to ask him. ³³ Jesus and his followers went to Capernaum. When they went into a house there, he asked them, "What were you arguing about on the road?" ³⁴ But the followers did not answer, because their argument on the road was about which one of them was the greatest. ³⁵ Jesus sat down and called the twelve apostles to him. He said, "Whoever wants to be the most important must be last of all and servant of all." ³⁶ Then Jesus took a small child and had him stand among them. Taking the child in his arms, he said, ³⁷ "Whoever accepts a child like this in my name accepts me. And whoever accepts me accepts the One who sent me." ³⁸ Then John said, "Teacher, we saw someone using your name to force demons out of a person. We told him to stop, because he does not belong to our group." ³⁹ But Jesus said, "Don't stop him, because anyone who uses my name to do powerful things will not easily say evil things about me.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Matthew 12:30, Luke 11:23

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For he that is not against us, is on our part. Many copies read, "he that is not against you, is for you"; as this man; he was not against either Christ, or his disciples; he was doing the same work, promoting the same interest, and destroying the kingdom of Satan: and therefore, though he did not follow them, and had not his commission immediately from Christ; yet, inasmuch as he was opposing the same common enemy, and did nothing against them, he ought to be reckoned as one for them, and on their side. It is a proverbial expression, signifying that all that are not against a man, and take not the part of his enemy, are to be accounted his friends.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 40. He that is not against us, is on our part. — Or rather, Whosoever is not against YOU, is for YOU. Instead of ημων, us, I would read υμων, you, on the authority of ADSHV, upwards of forty others, Syriac, Armenian, Persic, Coptic, AEthiopic, Gothic, Slavonic, Vulgate, Itala, Victor, and Opt. This reading is more consistent with the context - He followed not us-well, he is not against YOU; and he who is not against you, in such a work, may be fairly presumed to be on your side.

There is a parallel case to this mentioned in Numbers 11:26-29, which, for the elucidation of this passage, I will transcribe. "The Spirit rested upon Eldad and Medad, and they prophesied in the camp. And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp. And Joshua, the servant of Moses, said, My lord Moses, forbid them! And Moses said unto him, Enviest THOU for MY sake? Would God, that all the Lord's people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his Spirit upon them." The reader will easily observe that Joshua and John were of the same bigoted spirit; and that Jesus and Moses acted from the spirit of candour and benevolence. See the notes on Numbers 11:25-29.