Mark 8:1-4

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

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

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

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Mark 8:1

The multitude being very great - Or rather, There was again a great multitude. Instead of παμπολλου , very great, I read παλιν πολλου , again a great, which is the reading of BDGLM, fourteen others, all the Arabic, Coptic, Ethiopic, Armenian, Gothic, Vulgate, and Itala, and of many Evangelistaria. Griesbach approves of this reading. There had been such a multitude gathered together once before, who were fed in the same way. See Mark 6:34 , etc. read more

Adam Clarke

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

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

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

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

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

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

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Mark 8:1

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Mark 8:2

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Mark 8:3

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Mark 8:4

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