Mark 8

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Mark 8:31-33

8:31-33 He began to teach them that it was necessary that the Son of Man should suffer many things, and should be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed and rise again after three days. He kept telling them this plainly. And Peter caught him and began to rebuke him. He turned round; he looked at his disciples; and he rebuked Peter. "Get behind me, Satan," he said. "These are not God's thoughts but men's." It is against the background of what we have just seen... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Mark 8:34-35

8:34-35 He called the crowd to him, together with his disciples, and said to them, "If anyone wishes to come after me, let him deny himself, and let him take up his cross, and let him follow me." This part of Mark's gospel is so near the heart and centre of the Christian faith that we must take it almost sentence by sentence. If each day a man could go out with only one of these sentences locked in his heart and dominating his life, it would be far more than enough to be going on with. ... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Mark 8:36

8:36 Whoever seeks to save his life shall lose it; and whoever loses his life for my sake and for the sake of the gospel shall save it. There are certain things which are lost by being kept and saved by being used. Any talent that a man possesses is like that. If he uses it, it will develop into something still greater. If he refuses to use it he will in the end lose it. Supremely so, life is like that. History is full of examples of men, who by throwing away their lives, gained life... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Mark 8:37

8:37 What profit is it for a man to gain the whole world and to forfeit his life? For what is a man to give in exchange for his life? It is quite possible for a man in one sense to make a huge success of life and in another sense to be living a life that is not worth living. The real question Jesus asks is, "Where do you put your values in life?" It is possible for a man to put his values on the wrong things and to discover it too late. (i) A man may sacrifice honour for profit. He may... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Mark 8:38

8:38 "Whoever is ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him also shall the Son of Man be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels." And he used to say to them, "This is the truth I tell you--there are some of those who are standing here who will not taste of death until they shall see the Kingdom of God coming with power." One thing leaps out from this passage--the confidence of Jesus. He has just been speaking of his death;... 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

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Mark 8:4

And his disciples answered him ,.... The Syriac version renders it, "say unto him"; and the Persic and Ethiopic, "said unto him"; forgetting the late miracle of feeding five thousand with five loaves and two fishes, when they had now a less number, and more provisions: from whence can a man satisfy these men with bread here in the wilderness ? from what place, and by what ways and means can it be thought, that such a quantity of bread can be got at any rate in a desert, as to satisfy so... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Mark 8:5

And he asked them, how many loaves have ye ?.... See Gill on Matthew 15:34 ; and they said, seven . Matthew adds, "and a few little fishes", which are here afterwards mentioned. read more

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