Mark 6:7. "And He called unto Him the twelve, and began to send them forth two by two; and gave them power over unclean spirits." It was best on many accounts, that two should go together; but this was probably one end - that their testimony might be valid, for the testimony of two witnesses is true... [ Continue Reading ]
Mark 6:8. "And commanded them that they should take nothing for their journey, save a staff only; no scrip, no bread, no money in their purse." See Numbers 21:18. Mark 6:44... [ Continue Reading ]
Mark 6:44. "And they that did eat of the loaves were about five thousand men;" not that the multitude that was about him now was more numerous than very frequently at other times; whereby we know how publicly Christ's miracles were wrought. Mark 6:52... [ Continue Reading ]
Mark 6:52. "For they considered not the miracle of the loaves, for their hearts were hardened." By hardness of heart here, and in other places, is intended so largely as to take in blindness of mind, and the depravation of the faculties of the mind in general, and the prevention of their exercises.... [ Continue Reading ]