Mark 8:27-35

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Mark 8:27-38

We have read a great deal of the doctrine Christ preached, and the miracles he wrought, which were many, and strange, and well-attested, of various kinds, and wrought in several places, to the astonishment of the multitudes that were eye-witnesses of them. It is now time for us to pause a little, and to consider what these things mean; the wondrous works which Christ then forbade the publishing of, being recorded in these sacred writings, are thereby published to all the world, to us, to all... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Mark 8:27-30

8:27-30 Jesus and his disciples went away to the villages of Caesarea Philippi. On the road he asked his disciples a question. "Who," he said to them, "do men say that I am?" They said to him, "Some say, John the Baptizer; others say, Elijah; others, one of the prophets." He asked them, "You--who do you say that I am?" Peter answered him, "You are God's Anointed One." And he insisted that they should tell no man about him. Caesarea Philippi was outside Galilee altogether. It was not in the... read more

William Barclay

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

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Mark 8:27

And Jesus went out, and his disciples ,.... From Bethsaida and even from Galilee into the towns Caesarea Philippi ; in the jurisdiction of Philip, tetrarch of Iturea and Trachonitis; for this Caesarea was rebuilt by him and called so in honour of Tiberius Caesar; and the towns and villages adjacent to it are here intended: See Gill on Matthew 16:13 ; and by the way he asked his disciples ; as they were going from Galilee to those parts: saying unto them; whom do men say that I... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Mark 8:28

And they answered ,.... That some said he was John the Baptist ; which was the opinion of Herod, and others: but some say Elias ; that is the "Tishbite", whom the Jews in general expected in person before the coming of the Messiah and imagined that Jesus was he: and others one of the prophets ; as Jeremiah or Isaiah or some other. The Vulgate Latin reads, "as one of the prophets"; and so Beza's ancient copy as in Mark 6:15 . All spake highly and honourably of him: the people in... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Mark 8:29

And he saith unto them, but whom say ye that I am ?.... It was for the sake of this question he put the former; See Gill on Matthew 16:15 ; and Peter answereth and saith unto him, thou art the Christ ; the Messiah that was long ago promised and so often prophesied of in the books of Moses and the prophets; and whom the Jews have so much and long expected. This confession of Peter's in which all the apostles agreed with him speaks out what Jesus really was, and exceeds the most exalted... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Mark 8:30

And he charged them ,.... His disciples, after he had declared his approbation of Peter's confession of faith, and signified he would build his church on that rock, and the gates of hell should not prevail against it: and promised Peter the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and that whatsoever was bound, or loosed by him on earth, should be bound and loosed in heaven; which are omitted by Mark, but related by Matthew, Matthew 16:17 , after this he gave a strict and severe charge, that they... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Mark 8:31

And he began to teach them ,.... For as yet he had said nothing to them about his sufferings and death, at least in express terms; but now they being firmly established in the faith of him, as the Messiah, he thought it proper to inform them, that the son of man must suffer many things ; meaning himself, as that he should be betrayed, apprehended, and bound, should be smitten, spit upon, buffeted, and scourged; and which things must be done, and he suffer them, because it was so... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Mark 8:32

And he spake that saying openly ,.... Concerning his sufferings, death, and resurrection from the dead. He not only spoke it before them all, but in plain words, without a figure; so that it might be, and was clearly understood by them; and he spake it as the word will also bear, not only very freely, but likewise boldly, with an undaunted courage, with intrepidity of mind; being not in the least discouraged, nor showing any concern or fear about what was to befall him: and Peter took... read more

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