Mark 8:6-9 BSB

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Mark 8:8-9

Jesus’ provision was again typically adequate and abundant but not excessive.Some critics of the Bible have argued that Matthew and Mark told the story of one miraculous feeding twice and made mistakes that account for the differences in the accounts. [Note: E.g., Gould, p. 142.] However the differences between the two stories are so great that most readers believe Jesus fed two different groups of people on two separate occasions.Another debatable point is whether this crowd was Gentile, since... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Mark 8:1-38

Feeding the Four Thousand. The Sign from Heaven. Healing of a Blind Man. Confession of Peter1-10. Feeding the four thousand (Matthew 15:32). See on Mt.11-13. A sign from heaven sought (Matthew 16:1). See on Mt.14-21. A warning against the leaven of the Pharisees and of Herod (Matthew 16:4). See on Mt.22-26. A blind man healed at Bethsaida (peculiar to Mk, and selected, like the healing in Mark 7:32, for its unusual features). The man was healed in stages, probably because his faith was... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Mark 8:6

(6) To sit down.—The Greek word implies the usual Eastern position of reclining, rather than our sitting. read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Mark 8:8

(8) Broken meat.—Better, fragments.Seven baskets.—See Note on Matthew 15:37. read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Mark 8:1-38

The Compassion of the Christ Mark 8:1-2 So spake the Christ; so wrote the Holy Spirit; short, simple words, 'I have compassion'; pregnant with strength and with comfort for the toiling and heaving crowds of each succeeding age. There was nothing attractive then, even as there is nothing attractive now, in an eastern crowd. The motive power of the miracle was the eternal love of God manifest in the flesh. I. Observe how Christ takes the disciples into His confidence. Then, as now, He demanded... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Mark 8:1-10

Chapter 8CHAPTER 8:1-10 (Mark 8:1-10)THE FOUR THOUSAND"In those days, when there was again a great multitude, and they had nothing to eat, He called unto Him His disciples, and saith unto them, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with Me now three days, and have nothing to eat: and if I send them away fasting to their home, they will faint in the way; and some of them are come from afar. And His disciples answered Him, Whence shall one be able to fill these men with bread... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Mark 8:1-38

Chapter 8 1. The feeding of the Four Thousand. (Mark 8:1-9 . Matthew 15:32-39 ) 2. The Pharisees ask a sign. (Mark 8:10-13 .Matthew 16:1-4; Matthew 16:1-4 ) 3. The Warning against the leaven of the Pharisees. (Mark 8:14-21 .Matthew 16:5-12; Matthew 16:5-12 .) 4. The healing of the blind man. (Mark 8:22-26 ) 5. Peter’s Confession. (Mark 8:27-30 . Matthew 16:13-16 ; Luke 9:18-20 ) 6. The first announcement of His coming rejection and death. (Mark 8:31-33 .Matthew 16:21-23; Matthew... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Mark 8:1-38

REACHING A CRISIS The topics or events of the present lesson: · The Four Thousand Fed (Mark 8:1-9 ); · The Leaven of the Pharisees (Mark 8:10-21 ); · The Blind Man of Bethesda (Mark 8:22-26 ); · Peter’s Confession (Mark 8:27-38 ); · The Crisis of the Transfiguration (Mark 9:1-13 ); · The Lunatic Healed (Mark 9:14-29 ); · Christ’s Predication of His Death (Mark 9:30-32 ); · Ambition Rebuked (Mark 9:33-37 ); · Sectarianism Rebuked (Mark 9:38 ); · Future Retribution (Mark 9:42-50 ) In the second... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Mark 8:1-38

Feeding the Four Thousand [An Analysis] Mark 8:0 Here we have a special exemplification of the philanthropic spirit of Christ. In Christ, philanthropy was not a sentiment but a controlling power, not a dream but a fact Some of the more striking suggestions of this paragraph are these: (1) Two different methods of dealing with social problems, "send the multitude away;" that is one method, "give ye them to eat;" that is another. We often have the remedy at hand while we fruitlessly seek it afar... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Mark 8:1-9

CONTENTS. CHRIST is here described in feeding the people by a miracle. He giveth Sight to a blind man, and sweetly discourseth with his disciples. IN days the multitude being very great, and having nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples unto him, and saith unto them, (2) I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now been with me three days, and have nothing to eat: (3) And if I send them away fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the way: for divers of them came from... read more