Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Mark 8:1-38
The Compassion of the Christ Mark 8:1-2 So spake the Christ; so wrote the Holy Spirit; short, simple words, 'I have compassion'; pregnant with strength and with comfort for the toiling and heaving crowds of each succeeding age. There was nothing attractive then, even as there is nothing attractive now, in an eastern crowd. The motive power of the miracle was the eternal love of God manifest in the flesh. I. Observe how Christ takes the disciples into His confidence. Then, as now, He demanded... read more
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Mark 8:19-20
(19-20) How many baskets . . .?—The words for “baskets” are, as has been said, different in the two verses. (See Note on Matthew 15:37.) read more