Mark 8:1-26

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Mark 8:1-9

We had the story of a miracle very like this before, in this gospel (Mark 6:35), and of this same miracle (Matt. 15:32), and here is little or no addition or alternation as to the circumstances. Yet observe, 1. That our Lord Jesus was greatly followed; The multitude was very great (Mark 8:1); notwithstanding the wicked arts of the scribes and Pharisees to blemish him, and to blast his interest, the common people, who had more honesty, and therefore more true wisdom, than their leaders, kept up... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Mark 8:10-21

Still Christ is upon motion; now he visits the parts of Dalmanutha, that no corner of the land of Israel might say that they had not had his presence with them. He came thither by ship (Mark 8:10); but, meeting with occasions of dispute there, and not with opportunities of doing good, he entered into the ship again (Mark 8:13), and came back. In these verses, we are told, I. How he refused to gratify the Pharisees, who challenged him to give them a sign from heaven. They came forth on purpose... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Mark 8:22-26

This cure is related only by this evangelist, and there is something singular in the circumstances. I. Here is a blind man brought to Christ by his friends, with a desire that he would touch him, Mark 8:22. Here appears the faith of those that brought him?they doubted not but that one touch of Christ's hand would recover him his sight; but the man himself showed not that earnestness for, or expectation of, a cure that other blind men did. If those that are spiritually blind, do not pray for... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Mark 8:1-10

8:1-10 In those days, when there was again a great crowd, and when they had nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples to him and said, "My heart is moved with pity for the crowd, because they have stayed with me now for three days, and they have nothing to eat. If I send them away to their homes still fasting, they will faint on the road; and some of them have come from a long distance." His disciples answered him, "Where could anyone get bread to satisfy them in a desert place like this?"... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Mark 8:11-13

8:11-13 The Pharisees came out and began to ask him questions. They were looking for a sign from heaven, and they were trying to test him. He sighed in his spirit and said to them, "Why does this generation look for a sign? This is the truth I tell you--no sign will be given to this generation." He sent them away and he again embarked on the boat, and went away to the other side. The whole tendency of the age in which Jesus lived was to look for God in the abnormal. It was believed that... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Mark 8:14-21

8:14-21 They had forgotten to bring loaves, and they had only one loaf with them in the boat. Jesus enjoined them, "Look to it! Beware of the evil influence of the Pharisees and of the evil influence of Herod!" They kept discussing the situation among themselves, and saying, "We have no loaves." Jesus knew what they were saying. "Why," he said, "do you keep talking about the fact that you have no loaves? Do you not yet see and understand? Is your mind completely obtuse? Do you not see... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Mark 8:22-26

8:22-26 They came to Bethsaida; and they brought a blind man to him and asked him to touch him. He took the blind man's hand and took him outside the village. He spat into his eyes and laid his hands on him, and asked him, "Do you see anything?" He looked up and said, "I see men, but I see them walking looking like trees." Again he laid his hands on his eyes. He gazed intently, and his sight was restored and he saw everything clearly. He sent him away to his home. "Do not," he said, "even... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Mark 8:1

In those days ,.... The Ethiopic version reads, on that day; as if it was on the same day that the deaf man was healed; and so it might be; and on the third day from Christ's coming into those parts; and so is very properly expressed, "in those days"; see Mark 7:31 , compared with the following verse: the multitude being very great : for the number of men that ate, when the following miracle was wrought, were about four thousand; see Mark 8:9 . The Vulgate Latin, Arabic, and Ethiopic... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Mark 8:2

I have compassion on the multitude ,.... Christ is a compassionate Saviour both of the bodies and souls of men: he had compassion on the souls of this multitude, and therefore had been teaching them sound doctrine and he had compassion on the bodies of many of them, and had healed them of their diseases; and his bowels yearned towards them all; because , says he, they have now been with me three days, and have nothing to eat ; for if they brought any food with them, it was all spent,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Mark 8:3

And if I send them away fasting to their own houses ,.... Greek, "to their own house", or home; but all the Oriental versions render it as we do, in the plural, "their own houses", or habitations; and it seems from hence that they were now tasting, and at least had had no food all that day, whatever they might have the day before, which it not certain. They will faint by the way ; for want of food their strength will be exhausted, their animal spirits will fail, their nerves will be... read more

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