Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Mark 8:14-21
We met with this whole history, with some additions, in Matthew 16:5-12; See Poole on "Matthew 16:5", and following verses to Matthew 16:12. It teacheth us both a lesson of human frailty, and what is our Christian duty: of our frailty, in not considering the works of the Lord for us, so as to make any use of them for the time to come. God doth his great works of providence to he had in remembrance, and that not only with respect to himself, that he might be glorified by us upon the remembrance... read more
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Mark 8:14-21
Mark 8:14-Ecclesiastes : . The Blindness of the Disciples Rebuked.— This is a difficult paragraph. Mark 8:15 contains a genuine utterance of Jesus which does not necessarily belong to its present context. Lk. gives it in another connexion ( Luke 12:1) and Wellhausen points out that Mark 8:14 and Mark 8:16 seem artificially separated by Mark 8:15. Again, if Mark 8:1-1 Samuel : is really a doublet of Mark 6:30 f., then the form at least of Mark 8:19 f. is due to the evangelist. But the rebuke... read more