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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

Mark 8

Mark 8:1

MARK CHAPTER 8 MARK 8:1 Christ miraculously feedeth four thousand persons. MARK 8:10 He refuseth the Pharisees a sign. MARK 8:14 He warns his disciples against the leaven of the Pharisees and of Herod, and explains his meaning. MARK 8:22 He giveth a blind man sight. MARK 8:27 The people's opinions,... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 8:10

Ver. 10-13. Matthew saith, he _came into the coasts of Magdala; _ it is probable they were two contiguous tracts of land. We often read of the Pharisees coming to our Saviour to ask a sign. Had they not signs? What were all the miracles he wrought but signs of his Divine power and mission? But they... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 8:14

Ver. 14-21. We met with this whole history, with some additions, in MATTHEW 16:5; SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 16:5", and following verses to MATTHEW 16:12. It teacheth us both a lesson of human frailty, and what is our Christian duty: of our frailty, in not considering the works of the Lord for us, so as... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 8:22

Ver. 22-26. This miracle is only mentioned by Mark particularly, possibly because of two singularities in it: 1. With reference to the signs he used. 2. With reference to the gradual cure. Our Saviour sometimes used some signs in his miraculous operations, sometimes he used none, but by the word o... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 8:27

Ver. 27,28. Herod, and those that followed him, judged Christ to be John the Baptist raised from the dead, or to have the soul of John the Baptist clothed with other flesh. Others conceived him to be Elias, of whom they were in expectation that he should come before the Messias. Others thought he wa... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 8:29

Ver. 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 P... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 8:31

OLBGrk; Our Lord is elsewhere said to have taught his disciples, according as they were able to bear, or to hear, what he spake unto them. He did not at the first teach them that he must suffer death: the doctrine of the cross of Christ was like new wine not fit to be put into old bottles; yet neces... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 8:32

OLBGrk; Ver. 32,33. It is from hence manifest, that notwithstanding the confession of Peter, that he was the Christ, yet they had a very imperfect knowledge of the business of the redemption of man by the blood of Christ, and a very imperfect faith as to the hypostatical union of the Divine and huma... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 8:34

Our Saviour hearing Peter so stumble at the news, he told him, and the rest, of the cross which himself was to endure; and taking notice of his exceeding fondness to gratify himself, to the prejudice of a far greater good, he now tells them the law of his discipleship, that as he was not to please h... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 8:35

OLBGrk; We met with this argument twice in Matthew, to the notes upon which I refer the reader. SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 10:39". Mark adds those words, AND THE GOSPEL S, thereby teaching us that a suffering for the sake of the gospel, with therefore owning the propositions of it, or living up to the pr... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 8:36

OLBGrk; Ver. 36,37. Luke saith, if he lose himself and be cast away. Though quchn was rightly translated _life_ in the former verse, the sense justifying that translation of it there, yet here it is as truly translated _soul; _ for there are many things which men value in proportion with their live... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 8:38

These words occurring twice in Matthew, MATTHEW 2:33; MATTHEW 10:27, have been before spoken to: SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 10:33". SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 16:27". Luke repeats them most perfectly, as here they are recorded. Mark expounds Luke's words, where he saith that Christ _shall come in his own glor... [ Continue Reading ]

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