<p>12:21&nbsp;<em>And in his name shall the Gentiles hope</em>- Mark's record adds what Matthew strangely omits- that the great crowds whom He charged to not &quot;make Him known&quot; included Gentiles (Mk. 3:6-8). This makes sense of why the Lord healed &quot;all&quot; in the crowd (:15)- the sense is not that He healed every person in the crowd, as not all of them were in need of healing; perhaps rather the stress on &quot;all&quot; is to show that the sick Gentiles who were present were&nbsp;<em>also</em>&nbsp;healed. Note that &quot;In His Name shall the Gentiles trust&quot; is a quotation from the LXX of Is. 42:4 and not the Masoretic Text, which reads &quot;The isles shall wait for His law&quot;. The ready acceptance of the LXX by the inspired NT writers, even preferring it over the Hebrew, has many implications. One of them is that the genealogies as found in the LXX do not support the idea of Adam being 4000 years before Christ, which is essential to those who believe that the six day / thousand year periods ended in 2000 AD and the Millennium must now be established.</p>