Mark 8:12. And he sighed deeply in his spirit. This sigh, or groan, came from His heart, showing how keenly He felt the opposition He encountered. They showed more decided enmity, but the plain prediction of His death which so soon followed (Mark 8:31), shows that He knew the crisis was approaching. (‘The sign of the prophet Jonah,' Matthew 16:4, points in the same way.) It may have been a sign of His entering, though with human pang, upon the appointed path of tribulation. But the sigh was mainly for these who would reject the atoning sorrows they were the instruments in producing.

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