Mark 8

Notes on the verses

Chap. VIII. Ver. 1—10. In those days.—This is the same miracle related (Matthew 15:32-36).: js J f Ver. 8. And were filled—[This was another incontestable miracle—four thousand men, besides women and children, ((Matthew 15:28).) fed with seven loaves (or rather cakes) and a few small fishes! Here there must have been a manifest creation of substance—for they all] ate, and were filled. ]~ B.: Ver. 10. Dalmanutha.—[Dalmanutha is supposed to have been near the sea of Galilee in the district of Magdala, and not far from the city of that name.]—Bagster. Ver. 11—21. And the Pharisees, &c.—See the parallel passage, Mat. xv. Ver. 23. Led him out of the town.—Grotius thinks this was done to show our Lord’s displeasure against the people of Bethsaida.

Ver. 26. Any in the town—That is, if he should meet any of them in his way. Bethsaida was one of the places denounced by the Saviour.