Mark 8:1

CHAPTER VIII.

Four thousand persons fed with seven loaves and a few small

fishes, 1-8.

Christ refuses to give any farther sign to the impertinent

Pharisees, 10-12.

Warns his disciples against the corrupt doctrine of the

Pharisees and of Herod, 13-21.

He restores sight to a blind man, 22-26.

Asks his disciples what the public thought of him, 27-30.

Acknowledges himself to be the Christ, and that he must suffer,

31-33.

And shows that all his genuine disciples must take up their

cross, suffer in his cause, and confess him before men, 34-38.

NOTES ON CHAP. VIII.

Verse Mark 8:1. The multitude being very great] Or rather, There was again a great multitude. Instead of παμπολλου, very great, I read παλιν πολλου, again a great, which is the reading of BDGLM, fourteen others, all the Arabic, Coptic, AEthiopic, Armenian, Gothic, Vulgate, and Itala, and of many Evangelistaria. Griesbach approves of this reading. There had been such a multitude gathered together once before, who were fed in the same way. See Mark 6:34, c.