Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary (4 vols)
Mark 6:44
Mark 6:44. Five thousand men. Mark, usually so exact, does not speak of the ‘women and children' (Matthew). An evidence of independence.
Mark 6:44. Five thousand men. Mark, usually so exact, does not speak of the ‘women and children' (Matthew). An evidence of independence.
MARK 6:44 @tou.j a;rtouj# {C} External evidence is evenly divided between the witnesses that include the words tou.j a;rtouj and those that omit them. Moreover, several witnesses (such as D W syrs) t...
Verse 44. _WERE ABOUT FIVE THOUSAND_] ωσει, _about_, is omitted by a great majority of the best MSS. and by the principal versions. It is wanting in several _editions: Bengel, Wetstein_, and _Griesba...
See this narrative explained in the notes at Matthew 14:13. Mark 6:32 BY SHIP - By a boat or a small vessel. PRIVATELY - Without making their plan known. They intended to go privately. It appears, h...
CHAPTER 6 _ 1. The Servant rejected in Nazareth. (Mark 6:1. Matthew 13:54; Luke 4:16)_ 2. The Servant sends forth the Twelve. (Mark 6:7 .
THE FEEDING OF THE MULTITUDE. Mk. regards the disciples-' need of rest after their missionary labours as the occasion for retirement. The hostility of Herod may also have contributed to the decision t...
When it was now late the disciples came to Jesus. "The place, they said, "is lonely, and it is now late. Send them away that they may go into the surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselve...
WITHOUT HONOR IN HIS OWN COUNTRY (Mark 6:1-6)...
MEN. Greek. _aner,_ See App-123. Not generic, but literally men (not women). See Matthew 14:21....
_five thousand men_ besides _women and children_(Matthew 14:21), who would not sit down with the men, but sit or stand apart....
44. ὡσεί has very little authority. 44. ἌΝΔΡΕΣ. In all four; _men_; ἄνθρωποι. would be “people,” including women and children, whom Mt. mentions separately. Mt., Lk., and Jn have ὡσεί or ὡς before πε...
30–44. RETURN OF THE TWELVE. FEEDING OF FIVE THOUSAND Matthew 14:13-21; Luke 9:10-17; John 6:1-14....
Ver 35. And when the day was now far spent, His disciples came unto Him, and said, "This is a desert place, and now the time is far passed: 36. Send them away, that they may go into the country round...
_JESUS FED THE FIVE THOUSAND MARK 6:30-44:_ The apostles returned to Jesus and told Him what they had done and what they had taught. He wanted them to have a little time to rest so he took them to a d...
ΦΑΓΌΝΤΕΣ _aor. act. part., см._ Mark 6:36. Subst. part....
7. THE FEEDING OF THE FIVE THOUSAND 6:30-44. _TEXT 6:30-44_ And the apostles gather themselves together unto Jesus; and they told him all things, whatsoever they had done, and whatsoever they had tau...
_SUMMARY 6:1_7:23 The testimony for Jesus furnished by the preceding section, is based chiefly on the opinions which men formed concerning him. The disciples, though slow and hard of heart to realize...
And they that did eat of the loaves were about five thousand men. AND THEY THAT DID EAT OF THE LOAVES WERE [ABOUT] FIVE THOUSAND MEN - "besides women and children" (Matthew 14:21). Of these, howeve...
43 To fully appreciate the import of this sign, it must be compared with a similar one which occurred some time later. The cumulative contrast cannot be fully seen in an inaccurate version, but is rea...
VISIT TO NAZARETH. MISSION OF THE TWELVE. EXECUTION OF THE BAPTIST. FEEDING OF THE FIVE THOUSAND. WALKING ON THE SEA 1-6. Visit to Nazareth (Matthew 13:54)....
RETURN OF THE APOSTLES. FEEDING THE FIVE THOUSAND (Matthew 14:13; Luke 9:10; John 6:1). See on Mt and Jn. The graphic touches in Mk should be noticed: 'Come ye yourselves apart,' etc.; 'no leisure so...
CHRIST IN THE BIBLE: MARK’S GOSPEL _KEITH SIMONS_ This commentary HAS BEEN through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 6 JESUS IN NAZARETH VERSES 1-6 Everywhere that Jesus went, the crowds came. They w...
CHAPTER 6:30-46 (MARK 6:30) BREAD IN THE DESERT "And the apostles gather themselves together unto Jesus; and they told Him all things, whatsoever they had done, and whatsoever they had taught. And He...
πεντακισχίλιοι ἄνδρες, 5000 men: one loaf for 1000! Mt. adds: χωρὶς γυναικῶν καὶ παιδίων, women and children not counted. Of these, in the circumstances, there would be few, therefore probably not ref...
_The feeding_ (Matthew 14:14-21; Luke 9:11-17)....
THE SYMPATHY AND COMPASSION OF JESUS Mark 6:30-56 When the Apostles returned they had much to tell. Some were flushed with success, others radiant with victory over demons, others, perhaps, overstrai...
"He could there do no mighty work." Not that He in Himself was unable, for His hands laid on a few sick folk brought healing, but that the condition of wilful and persistent unbelief limited the power...
CHAPTER 32 FEEDING THE MULTITUDES Matthew 14:13-21; Mark 6:32-44; Luke 9:10-17; & John 6:1-14. Mark: “And they de
THE TWELVE RETURN Mark 6:30-44. “And the apostles come together to Jesus, and proclaim to Him all things, even so many things as they did, and so many things as they taught. He said to them, Come ye a...
(30) And the apostles gathered themselves together unto Jesus, and told him all things, both what they had done, and what they had taught. (31) And he said unto them, Come ye yourselves apart into a d...
It is remarkable how tradition has contrived to injure the truth in touching the question of the method of the gospel we now enter on; for the current view which comes down to us from the ancients, st...
In that which follows, the history (properly so called) of His service is resumed (chapter 6). Only we see Him already rejected by a blinded people, in spite of the power which He had manifested, and...
AND THEY THAT DID EAT OF THE LOAVES,.... And also of the fishes; for they all ate of both; WERE ABOUT FIVE THOUSAND MEN; the word ωσει, "about", is omitted in the Vulgate Latin, Syriac, Arabic, Persi...
And they that did eat of the loaves were about five thousand men. Ver. 44. _See Trapp on "_ Mat 14:20 _"_ _See Trapp on "_ Joh 6:12 _"_ _See Trapp on "_ Joh 6:13 _"_ _See Trapp on "_ Joh 6:14 _"_...
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...
_When the day was far spent_, &c. See notes on Matthew 14:15, where the circumstances of the miracle here recorded are explained at large. _And they sat down in ranks_ Or rather, _in squares_, as Camp...
Five thousand fed, near the shore of the sea of Galilee. Matthew 14:15-21....
AND THEY THAT DID EAT OF THE LOAVES WERE ABOUT FIVE THOUSAND MEN. Nothing could be more expressive than the contrast afforded here between the helpless puttering of the disciples and the cool, majesti...
The feeding:...
30-44 Let not ministers do any thing or teach any thing, but what they are willing should be told to their Lord. Christ notices the frights of some, and the toils of others of his disciples, and prov...
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Mark 6:44 Now G2532 eaten G5315 (G5631) loaves G740 were G2258 (G5713) about G5616 thousand G4000 men...
THE DISCIPLES RETURN AND TAKE A BREAK - THE FEEDING OF FIVE THOUSAND PEOPLE (6:30-44). When the disciples returned and explained to Jesus all that had happened He sought to take them somewhere where t...
THE WIDER MINISTRY BEGINS - THE APOSTLES ARE SENT OUT - OPPOSITION CONTINUES (6:6A-56). Having established that Jesus is Lord of the elements, Lord over evil spirits and Lord over life and death, Mark...
MEN (ανδρες). Men as different from women as in Matthew 14:21. This remarkable miracle is recorded by all Four Gospels, a nature miracle that only God can work. No talk about accelerating natural pr...
CONTENTS: The twelve sent out to preach. Murder of John the Baptist. The 5000 fed. Jesus walks on the sea. Jesus heals many at Gennesaret. CHARACTERS: Jesus, disciples, Herod, Herodias, her daughter,...
Mark 6:3. _Is not this the carpenter?_ The jews were bound to teach their children some trade, as no man could say what the vicissitudes of life might be. Hence Lightfoot cites the following passage f...
_He answered and said unto them, Give ye them to eat._ MIRACLE OF THE LOAVES The miracles of Christ ought to be considered; they are not trifles, and they ought not to be passed over as if they were...
MARK—NOTE ON MARK 6:14 The death of John the Baptist casts an ominous shadow on Jesus’ future. Jesus’ life is in danger, partly because of his authoritative, miraculous deeds. ⇐
Jesus feeds five thousand Matthew 14:13-21; Mark 6:30-44; Luke 9:10-17; John 6:1-15;...
CHAPTER 6 1 _Christ is contemned of his countrymen_. 7 _He giveth the twelve power over unclean spirits_. 14 _Divers opinions of Christ_. 27 _John Baptist is beheaded_, 29 _and buried_. 30 _The apostl...
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Mark 6:33_ (PARALLELS: Matthew 14:13; Luke 9:10; John 6:1.) _The multitude fed_.—When Jesus came forth fr
EXPOSITION MARK 6:1 Our Lord now left the neighbourhood of Capernaum, and came INTO HIS OWN COUNTRY, the district of Nazareth, where he had been, not born indeed, but brought up, and where his kinsfo...
Shall we turn to Mark's gospel, chapter 6. Jesus had been in the city of Capernaum there on the northern part of the Sea of Galilee. And He has just brought back to life the daughter of Jairus, one of...
Men [α ν δ ρ ε ς]. Not generic, including men and women, but literally men. Compare Matthew 14:21, beside women and children; a detail which we should have expected from Mark....