Mark 8:9

8:1-10 Our Lord Jesus encouraged the meanest to come to him for life and grace. Christ knows and considers our frames. The bounty of Christ is always ready; to show that, he repeated this miracle. His favours are renewed, as our wants and necessities are. And those need not fear want, who have Christ to live upon by faith, and do so with thanksgiving.

And they that had eaten were about four thousand,.... That is, men, besides women and children, as Matthew observes; See Gill on Matthew 15:38 . and he sent them away; some that came dumb, with their speech, and deaf, with their hearing; others that were maimed, with perfect healing of their wounds, and with their limbs sound and whole; others that came lame, he dismissed leaping; and others that were blind, with their sight restored to them, and all of them full.

9. And they that had eaten were about four thousand: and he sent them away—Had not our Lord distinctly referred, in this very chapter and in two successive sentences, to the feeding of the five thousand and of the four thousand as two distinct miracles, many critics would have insisted that they were but two different representations of one and the same miracle, as they do of the two expulsions of the buyers and sellers from the temple, at the beginning and end of our Lord's ministry. But even in spite of what our Lord says, it is painful to find such men as Neander endeavoring to identify the two miracles.

The localities, though both on the eastern side of the lake, were different; the time was different; the preceding and following circumstances were different; the period during which the people continued fasting was different—in the one case not even one entire day, in the other three days; the number fed was different—five thousand in the one case, in the other four thousand; the number of the loaves was different—five in the one case, in the other seven; the number of the fishes in the one case is definitely stated by all the four Evangelists—two; in the other case both give them indefinitely—"a few small fishes"; in the one case the multitude were commanded to sit down "upon the green grass"; in the other "on the ground"; in the one case the number of the baskets taken up filled with the fragments was twelve, in the other seven; but more than all, perhaps, because apparently quite incidental, in the one case the name given to the kind of baskets used is the same in all the four narratives—the cophinus (see on [1454]Mr 6:43); in the other case the name given to the kind of baskets used, while it is the same in both the narratives, is quite different—the spuris, a basket large enough to hold a man's body, for Paul was let down in one of these from the wall of Damascus (Ac 9:25). It might be added, that in the one case the people, in a frenzy of enthusiasm, would have taken Him by force to make Him a king; in the other case no such excitement is recorded.

So Mark 16:18 , "They shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover" (see also Matthew 9:18 ; Matthew 19:13, 15 ; Mark 5:23 ; Mark 6:5 ; Mark 7:32 ; Mark 8:23, 25 ; Luke 4:40 ; Luke 13:13 ; Acts 9:12 ). It is also spoken of as an accompaniment of prayer in confirmation, ordination, etc. It has been remarked as curious that the two actions of taking up serpents and healing the sick by the laying on of hands should be in such close juxtaposition both here and in Mark 16:18 . It suggests the thought whether Luke had seen the passage in St. Mark; or whether the writer of Mark 16:18 had seen Acts 28:8 . Or is the coincidence accidental, arising out of the facts? Acts 28:8

[Reformed Biblical] e 41. No Barnes text on this verse. {o} "feared exceedingly" Jonah 1:10,16 {p} "the sea" Job 38:11 ## THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MARK - Chapter 5 ## THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MARK - Chapter 5 - Verse 1 Verses 1-20. See this account of the demoniacs fully explained in Barnes Notes on Matthew 8:28-34. {q} "And they came" Matthew 8:28; Luke 8:26 ## THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MARK - Chapter 5 - Verse 2 Verse 2. No notes from Barnes on this verse. ## THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MARK - Chapter 5 - Verse 3 Verse 3. No notes from Barnes on this verse . {r} "his dwelling" Isaiah 65:4 ## THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MARK - Chapter 5 - Verse 4 Verse 4. No notes from Barnes on this verse. ## THE G OSPEL ACCORDING TO MARK - Chapter 5 - Verse 5 Verse 5. No notes from Barnes on this verse. ## T HE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MARK - Chapter 5 - Verse 6 Verse 6. Worshipped him. Bowed down before him; rendered him homage. This was an acknowledgment of his power, and of his control over fallen spirits. {s} "worshipped" Psalms 72:9 ## THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MARK - Chapter 5 - Verse 7 Verse 7. No notes from Barnes on this verse. ## THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MARK - Chapter 5 - Verse 8 Verse 8. No notes from Barnes on this verse. {t} "Come out of him" Acts 16:18; Hebrews 2:14; 1 John 3:8 ## THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MARK - Chapter 5 - Verse 9 ## Verse 9. My name is Legi on. See Barnes "Matthew 8:29" . ## THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MARK - Chapter 5 - Verse 10 Verse 10. No notes from Barnes on this verse. ## TH

[Reformed Biblical] se doubts, and he will see all things clearly, and the universe will appear to be filled with one broad flood of light. {f} "saw every man" Proverbs 4:18; Isaiah 32:3; 1 Pe 2:9 ## THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MARK - Chapter 8 - Verse 26 Verse 26. The town. The town of Bethsaida. Nor tell it, etc. Lest it excite the jealousy of the Pharisees, and produce commotion and danger. ## THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MARK - Chapter 8 - Verse 27 Verses 27-38. See this passage illustrated in Matthew 16:13-28. {f} "And Jesus" Matthew 16:13; Luke 9:18 ## THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MARK - Chapter 8 - Verse 28 Verse 28. No Barnes text on this verse. {g} "John" Matthew 14:2 ## THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MARK - Chapter 8 - Verse 29 Verse 29. No Barnes text on this verse. {h} "Thou art" John 1:41-49; 6:69; 11:27; Acts 8:37; 1 John 5:1 ## THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MARK - Chapter 8 - Verse 30 Verse 30. No Barnes text on this verse. ## THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MARK - Chapter 8 - Verse 31 Verse 31. No Barnes text on this verse. ## THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MARK - Chapter 8 - Verse 32 Verse 32. He spake that saying openly; With boldness or confidence, or without parables or figures; so that there could be no possibility, of misunderstanding him. ## THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MARK - Chapter 8 - Verse 33 Verse 33. No Barnes text on this verse. {i} "rebuked Peter" Revelation 3:19 {k} "Satan" 1 Colossians 5:5 ## THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MARK - Chapter 8 - Verse 34 Verse 34. No Barnes text on this verse.