John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Matthew 16:5
When his disciples were come to the other side ,.... Of the sea, as Munster's Hebrew Gospel adds, to Bethsaida, Mark 8:22 as they were either in the ship, or going from the shore to the said place, they recollected themselves, that they had forgotten to take bread : having but one loaf, as Mark says, in the ship; the seven baskets of fragments being either expended, or given away to the poor, of their own accord, or by Christ's orders. It seems, it was usual with the disciples to buy... read more
John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Matthew 16:4
A wicked and adulterous generation ,.... He says the same things here, as he did to the Pharisees on a like occasion, in Matthew 12:39 . And he left them ; as persons hardened, perverse, and incurable, and as unworthy to be conversed with: and departed : to the ship which brought him thither, and went in it to the other side of the sea of Galilee; see Mark 8:13 . read more