_CHRIST FEEDETH THE PEOPLE MIRACULOUSLY: REFUSETH TO GIVE A SIGN TO THE PHARISEES: ADMONISHETH HIS DISCIPLES TO BEWARE OF THE LEAVEN OF THE PHARISEES, AND OF THE LEAVEN OF HEROD: GIVETH A BLIND MAN HIS SIGHT: ACKNOWLEDGETH THAT HE IS THE CHRIST, WHO SHOULD SUFFER, AND RISE AGAIN; AND EXHORTETH TO PA... [ Continue Reading ]
BEGAN TO QUESTION WITH HIM,— Συζητειν, _to dispute._ Heylin. This may refer to the ancient method of disputation, which was carried on by question and answer. Dr. Doddridge renders it _began to examine him._... [ Continue Reading ]
THERE SHALL NO SIGN BE GIVEN— Ει δοθησεται. _I am not alive, if a sign,_ &c. That this is an elliptical form of adjuration, is evident from Hebrews 3:11 in the original. The oath must be supplied thus: _Let me not be true, if they shall enter into my rest,—if a sign shall be given,_ &c. Or as in Eze... [ Continue Reading ]
AND OF THE LEAVEN OF HEROD.— See the note on Matthew 22:16. It seems evident from this passage, that the Herodians were of the sect of the Sadducees; for what St. Mark calls _the leaven of Herod,_ St. Matthew, in the parallel passage, calls the _leaven of the Sadducees. Herodian,_ therefore, was but... [ Continue Reading ]
HEART YET HARDENED?— _Still insensible._ Heylin.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND DO YE NOT REMEMBER?— Continue this on with what follows, and it seems to connect more properly. _Do ye not remember, when I broke the five loaves, how many baskets?_ &c. As in Matthew 16:9. See Bowyer's _Conjectures_ on Mark.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY BRING A BLIND MAN, &C.— Two things are remarkable in this miracle: first, our Lord led the man out of the town, before he would heal him; and, when the cure was performed, he forbad him to return thither, or so much as to tell it unto any who lived in the town. The reason was, the people ha... [ Continue Reading ]
WHOM DO MEN SAY THAT I AM?— See on Matthew 16:13; Matthew 16:28. It is remarkable, that the noble confession of St. Peter, recorded in St. Matthew, is suppressed here; which is a strong presumption that either St. Peter dictated this Gospel, or revised it, according to the ancient tradition.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SPAKE THAT SAYING OPENLY.— _Plainly and freely,_ παρρησια : our Lord thought fit to foretel his own sufferings plainly, to bear down any towering imaginations which might have sprung up in the apostles' minds from the preceding discourses; for their faith was now so confirmed, that they could... [ Continue Reading ]
WHOSOEVER THEREFORE, &C.— Jesus fitly inculcated the necessity of self-denial from the consideration of a judgment to come; the most awful and important event in the whole compass of our duration, and which, the word of God directsustobelieve,willbeattendedwith the most awful circumstances. His inte... [ Continue Reading ]