Mark 8
DOYLYMark 8:10
10.—the parts of Dalmanutha.] See the note at Matt. xv. 29.
Mark 8:11
- And the Pharisees &c.] Respecting what follows, see further notes at Matt. xvi.
Mark 8:12
- And he sighed deeply &c.] He “sighed deeply,”
from a knowledge of their incurable hypocrisy and malice, and said, What a perverse generation is this, that, after so many miracles wrought amongst them, they will yet believe nothing unless they see a sign from heaven of their own choosing. No such sign shall be granted to satisfy their unreasonable and perverse curiosity. Dr. S. Clarke.
—no sign be given] No such sign as they now require shall be given to this wicked race of men. Abp. Newcome. See notes at Matt. xii. 38, 39; xvi. 1.
Mark 8:15
15.—the leaven of Herod. &c.] St. Matthew, at chap. xvi. 6, calls it “the leaven of the Sadducees:” whence it may be concluded that the party of Herod, or the Herodians, were Sadducees. Bp. Pearce.
Mark 8:17
17.—Why reason ye, &c.] Why are your minds so full of solicitous thoughts upon your having forgotten to bring bread with you? Will you never be taught, by the great and repeated miracles which I have wrought before your eyes, to understand My power and to rely upon Me? or do you never regard or remember what you see? Dr. S. Clarke.
—yet hardened?] Or unconvinced by these miracles. Dr. Whitby.
Mark 8:23
23.—led him out of the town:] Knowing the impenitence and unworthiness of the people of Bethsaida, Matt. xi. 21. Dr. S. Clarke.
Mark 8:24
24.—I see men as trees, walking.] Implying that he saw them indistinctly, not discerning their form. Abp. Newcome.
He foresheweth his own death. The transfiguration of Christ.
Anno DOMINI 22. again upon his eyes, and made him look up: and he was restored, and saw every man clearly.
Mark 8:26
26.—the town.] Bethsaida. See note at ver. 23.
Mark 8:27
27.—the towns of Cesarea Philippi.] The towns or villages, which were round about Cesarea Philippi. Bp. Pearce.
Mark 8:32
32.—he spake that saying openly.] He informed them of this truth plainly and expressly, judging it a fit occasion to acquaint them with His approaching humiliation and sufferings, when they had just declared their belief of His greatness and power, and were full of too great expectations that He would suddenly make some glorious manifestation of it. Dr. S. Clarke.
—“began to rebuke him.] See his words at Matt. xvi. 22.
Chap. IX. ver. 1. And he said unto them, &c.] On the matters contained in this chapter, see further notes at Matt. xvi. 28; xvii. 1—8; and other passages referred to in the margin.
—“which shall not taste of death, &c.] Which shall live to see the kingdom of the Messiah begin to be gloriously established, by the terrible destruction of His enemies, and by the wonderful success and propagation of the Gospel, with great and glorious manifestations of the Divine power. Dr. S. Clarke.