Mark 8:29 NIV

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Mark 8:27-38

3. The Opinions of the People, and Peter’s Confession. Pre-announcement of His Sufferings. The Presumption of Peter. Christ’s Teaching concerning Cross-bearing. Mark 8:27 to Mark 9:1(Parallels: Matthew 16:13-28; Luke 9:18-27) 27And Jesus went out and his disciples into the towns of Cæsarea Philippi: and by the way he asked his disciples, saying unto them, Whom do men say that I am? 28And they answered,14 John the Baptist: but some say, Elias; and others, One of the 29prophets. And he said... read more

Alexander MacLaren

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Mark 8:27-38

Mark CHRIST’S CROSS, AND OURS Mar_8:27 - Mar_9:1 . Our Lord led His disciples away from familiar ground into the comparative seclusion of the country round Caesarea Philippi, in order to tell them plainly of His death. He knew how terrible the announcement would be, and He desired to make it in some quiet spot, where there would be collectedness and leisure to let it sink into their minds. His consummate wisdom and perfect tenderness are equally and beautifully shown in His manner of... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Mark 8:22-38

the Cost of following Jesus Mark 8:22-38 ; Mark 9:1 Our attention has been drawn to the Master’s sighs; here, however, was another characteristic act. He spat on the eyes of the blind man, perhaps to excite his expectation and faith. Repulsive as ophthalmia is in the East, it did not repel Him nor staunch the flow of His pity. We do not at once see everything clearly, but step by step we come unto perfect vision. Here we see through a glass darkly, there face to face. There was a great... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Mark 8:1-38

This was the second miracle of feeding. Our Lord knew whence these people came, and was solicitous for them on their long journey home if they departed without food. The miracle was the result. The warning given to the disciples was consequent on the request of the Pharisees for a sign from heaven. This desire for a sign beyond those given was, and is, a danger. Those who live in unbroken communion with God do not seek for signs, but find them in all the miraculous movements of the most... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Mark 8:29

THE GREAT CONFESSION‘Whom say ye that I am? And Peter answereth and saith unto Him, Thou art the Christ.’ Mark 8:29 This incident arose out of a conversatfon ‘by the way.’ Happy are those journeys in which time is not wasted on trifles. I. The variety of opinions about Christ.—Every kind of opinion appears to have been current, excepting that one which was true. We may see the same thing on every side at the present day. Christ and His Gospel are just as little understood and are the subject... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Mark 8:1-38

SECTION 3. Jesus’ Ministry Throughout Galilee and In The Surrounding Regions (4:35-9:32). After the initial opening up of the story of Jesus with its continual emphasis on His unique authority, Who He was and what He had come to do (Mark 4:1-3), and the series of parables which have indicated how the Kingly Rule of God was to expand (Mark 4:1-34), Mark now indicates how this expansion continued to occur through the ministry of Jesus in Galilee and the surrounding regions. At the same time he... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Mark 8:22-38

The Eyes of The Disciples Are Opened (8:22-9:33a). Following on Jesus’ concern at the lack of understanding of the disciples we now learn how their eyes are gradually opened to see at least something of the truth. The subsection commences with the healing of a blind man in two stages, a picture of what is happening to the disciples, and moves on to the disciples’ recognition that Jesus is the Messiah. The consequence of this is that Jesus then begins to emphasise that His way is to be a way of... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Mark 8:29-30

‘And he asked them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answers and said to him, “You are the Messiah.” And he charged them that they should tell no man of him.’ Jesus then became more direct and challenged them as to how they saw Him. At the challenge of Jesus (the ‘you’ is emphatic) Peter made clear that, in spite of all their bafflement, they did recognise that He was the Messiah, God’s unique, long promised Deliverer. And it was a title which He accepted as is shown by the fact that He... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Mark 8:27-38

Mark 8:27 to Mark 9:1 . The Great Confession, and the First View of the Cross.— Here opens a new section of the gospel. The tendency to seek retirement with the Twelve, pronounced from Mark 6:31 onwards, now dominates the story. Jesus devotes Himself to training the Twelve in the shadow of the Cross. This concentration on His disciples becomes possible when they pierce His secret. The full significance of the confession is only apparent if Jesus has not previously revealed Himself or been... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Mark 8:29-30

Luke reports no more of this than Mark, but Matthew reports it much larger, giving us a further reply of Christ to Peter; See Poole on "Matthew 16:15", and following verses to Matthew 16:20, which we have there discoursed largely upon. I shall only say here; That if so great a point as Peter’s primacy had been understood by Christ’s disciples of that age to have been settled by that answer of our Saviour, it is likely two of the evangelists would not have omitted an account of it. If they had... read more

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Mark 8:27-38

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Mark 8:27-38

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Mark 8:22-38

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Mark 8:1-38

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Mark 8:29

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Mark 8:1-38

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Mark 8:22-38

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Mark 8:29-30

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Mark 8:27-38

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Mark 8:29-30

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