range of evangelical traditions, all of the ideas and principles conveyed Yet if we are ashamed of Him, He will be ashamed of us. (1.) He had some glimmerings of sight, and betwixt him and the sky could perceive a man erect like a tree, but could not discern the form thereof, Job 4 16. Mark begins his Gospel by announcing that he is writing the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. i. They reasoned among themselves, what should be the meaning of this caution, and concluded, "It is because we have no bread; he saith this, to reproach us for being so careless as to go to sea, and go among strangers, with but one loaf of bread; he doth, in effect, tell us, we must be brought to short allowance, and must eat our bread by weight." Resume Prayer. Scripture: Mark 8:34-38. Deny himself, and take up his cross: Everybody knew what Jesus meant when He said this. Could it be that they had been withheld by the doubting disciples until they saw how the bread was multiplied? Peters rebuke of Jesus was evidence of the leaven mentioned in Mark 8:15. 5 And he asked them, How many loaves have ye? It required a miracle to restore the sight, and this was done in consequence of Christ having laid his hands upon the blind man: it required no miracle to separate the eyelids, and, therefore, natural means only were employed this was done by rubbing them with spittle.. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation. An Epileptic Healed. We use cookies to let us know when you visit our websites, how you interact with us, to enrich your user experience, and to customize your relationship with our website. For eight chapters Mark has been presenting event after event, miracle after miracle, and statement after statement as evidence and proof that Jesus is the Messiah and that Jesus is the Son of God; that He is God in the flesh and that He is God among us. Why were these not mentioned before? General Epistles And He took the seven loaves and gave thanks, broke them and gave them to His disciples to set before them; and they set them before the multitude. of Scripture. Do you not yet perceive nor understand? Pauline Epistles Was it a tone communicating anger, concern, or frustration? We practice self-denial when, for a good purpose, we occasionally give up things or activities. General Epistles And Peter answereth and saith unto him, Thou art the Christ. Christ checked him for his opposition (v. 33); He turned about, as one offended, and looked on his disciples, to see if the rest of them were of the same mind, and concurred with Peter in this, that, if they did, they might take the reproof to themselves, which he was now about to give to Peter; and he said, Get thee behind me, Satan. You see, there was no way to carry your cross in private. Going with Jesus means often going against the tides of opinion, values, behaviour or thought. What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? b. i. You cant gain resurrection life without dying first. Some of them had come from long distances. have ye your heart yet hardened? If you do not want that we track your visit to our site you can disable tracking in your browser here: We also use different external services like Google Webfonts, Google Maps, and external Video providers. Peter spoke as one that did not rightly understand, nor had duly considered, the nature of Christ's kingdom; he took it to be temporal and human, whereas it is spiritual and divine. 3. The person carrying a cross knew they couldnt save themselves. i. It was therefore proper to remind them, not only of the sufficiency, but of the overplus, of the former meals; and justly were they chidden for not understanding what Christ therein designed, and what they from thence might have learned. Minor Prophets So He commanded the multitude to sit down: He intended them not only a running banquet, a slight come-off, but a full feast, a good meal, and therefore bade them sit down and feed their fill. (Trapp). May 23, 2017. Let him deny himself, and take up his cross: It was bad enough for the disciples to hear that Jesus would suffer, be rejected, and die on a cross. Jesus encourages a slave rebellion, where the slaves of sin, Satan, and the world rebel against their masters. The account they gave him of their own sentiments concerning him, intimated their abundant satisfaction in him, and in their having left all to follow him, which now, after some time of trial, they see no reason to repent; But whom say ye that I am? But Jesus had to ask them, as individuals, what they believed about Jesus. Historical Books Poetical Books i. "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says the Lord. a. They claim that this was merely a retelling of the feeding of the 5,000. They reasoned itdielogizonto, they disputed about it; one said, "It was owing to you;" and the other said, "It was owing to you, that we are so ill provided for this voyage." But we deny self when we surrender ourselves to Christ and determine to obey His will. (Wiersbe). He didnt make a deliberate choice to reject God and embrace Satan; he simply let his mind settle on the things of men instead of the things of God, and Satan took advantage of it. The cure was wrought gradually, which was not usual in our Lord's miracles. Mark 8:31-38 Commentary. Now the disciples had forgotten to take bread, and they did not have more than one loaf with them in the boat. Because Peter couldnt handle a suffering Messiah, he rebuked Jesus. Note, Christ sees that amiss in what we say and do, which we ourselves are not aware of, and knows what manner of spirit we are of, when we ourselves do not. This is unfortunate, since his works contain priceless gems of information that are found nowhere except in the ancient writings of the Jews. Stories about the happy couple who had a magical wedding and then died in a plane crash on the way to their honeymoon. Pukekohe Mare Miss Lu Repeats her Performance of Last Year and The healing of the blind man near Bethsadia is the only recorded miracle performed by Jesus where the healing was initially incomplete. a. Whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospels will save it: We must follow Jesus this way because it is the only way that we will ever find life. Then again, it is their prayer that is mentioned, not his-he asked nothing. We fully respect if you want to refuse cookies but to avoid asking you again and again kindly allow us to store a cookie for that. This cure is related only by this evangelist, and there is something singular in the circumstances. To be a Christian indeed, is, sincerely to believe that Jesus is the Christ, and to act accordingly; and that he is so, plainly appears by his wondrous works. Authentic discipleship involves imitating Jesus, and we must begin with an understanding of Jesus as Messiah and the kingdom to which he invites us to belong. The two express the same idea. THE COST OF FOLLOWING JESUS Mark 8:22-38; Mark 9:1 Our attention has been drawn to the Master's sighs; here, however, was another characteristic act. Mark Commentary. The cross wasnt about religious ceremonies; it wasnt about traditions and spiritual feelings. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, (Hebrew/Greek Search by English Definition), * 'Number Delimiters' only apply to 'Paragraph Order', Search verses, phrases, and topics (e.g. As we have seen, Mark is fond of groups of three, and this is the first of three triads that emphasize Jesus's Messianic role. His favours are renewed, as our wants and necessities are. Now those who had eaten were about four thousand. Once more Jesus put his hands on the man's eyes. Afterward, when he was nailed to the cross, they prescribed a new sign; Let him come down from the cross, and we will believe him; thus obstinate infidelity will still have something to say, though ever so unreasonable. (Mark 8:1-4) Jesus gives the disciples an opportunity for faith. 2. They seemed to suspect that the one was not matter enough to work upon, if he should have a mind to entertain his hearers a third time: and if that was their thought, it was indeed a very senseless one, as if it were not all alike to the Lord, to save by many or few, and as easy to make one loaf to feed five thousand as five. The cross wasnt about self-promotion or self-affirmation. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts" (Isaiah 55:8,9). Frequent notice had been taken of the great flocking that there was to him for help in various cases: now this is written, that we may believe that he is the great Physician of souls, and may become his patients, and submit to his regimen; and here he tells us upon what terms we may be admitted; and he called all the people to him, to hear this, who modestly stood at some distance when he was in private conversation with his disciples. 3. And He realized that they've been there now for three days. Toward the close of the OT period, the word anointed assumed a special meaning. Then He sent him away to his house, saying, Neither go into the town, nor tell anyone in the town., a. And Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him. Apparently, the fishes were blessed separately and then distributed as the bread had been. (Ironside). Instead, Jesus did miracles to show the power of God in the context of mercy. 23 And he took the blind man by the hand and led him out of the village, and when he had spit on his eyes and laid his hands on him, he asked him, "Do you see anything?" 24 And he looked up and said . 4 And his disciples answered him, From whence can a man satisfy these men with bread here in the wilderness? Its not hard to see Peter following these steps: ii. 8. You begin to get a little stronger and you begin to loose that tremendous hunger. Because he would not tie himself to a method, but would show with what liberty he acted in all he did. Unthinkable! In our Father's house, in our Master's house, there is bread enough, and to spare; there is a fulness in Christ, which he communicates to all that passes through his hands; so that from it we receive, and grace for grace, John 1 16. He was amazed at the unbelief and audacity of these religious leaders. ESV : English Standard Version 2016. Those that will be Christ's patients must attend on him, converse with him, receive instruction and reproof from him, as those did that followed him, and must resolve they will never forsake him. We may request cookies to be set on your device. Peters rebuke of Jesus was evidence of the leaven mentioned in Mark 8:15. 6. Mark 8:22-26 contains an important fulfillment of prophecy. When He had called the people to Himself, with His disciples also, He said to them, Whoever desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me., a. Every Christian must be a Crucian, said Luther, and do somewhat more than those monks that made themselves wooden crosses, and carried them on their back continually, making all the world laugh at them. (Trapp). 26 And he sent him away to his house, saying, Neither go into the town, nor tell it to any in the town. We need 2 cookies to store this setting. Yet if we are ashamed of Him, He will be ashamed of us. G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible This was the second miracle of feeding. So they ate and were filled, and they took up seven large baskets of leftover fragments. i. If Jesus Christ had come into the world as a mighty and opulent man, clothed with earthly glories and honours, he would have had a multitude of partisans, and most of them hypocrites. (Clarke). The notice he gave his disciples of his own approaching sufferings (ver 31-33), and the warning he gave them to prepare for sufferings likewise, ver 34-38. We must not dread the loss of our lives, provided it be in the cause of Christ (v. 35); Whosoever will save his life, by declining Christ, and refusing to come to him, or by disowning and denying him after he has in profession come to Christ, he shall lose it, shall lose the comfort of his natural life, the root and fountain of his spiritual life, and all his hopes of eternal life; such a bad bargain will he make for himself. 27 And Jesus went out, and his disciples, into the towns of Csarea Philippi: and by the way he asked his disciples, saying unto them, Whom do men say that I am? i. Christ doth not forbid him to tell it to others, but he must not tell it to any in the town. He didnt make a deliberate choice to reject God and embrace Satan; he simply let his mind settle on the things of men instead of the things of God, and Satan took advantage of it. Mark 8:11-21 Spiritual Blindness, Part 1. I. Christ asked them, not that he might be informed, but that they might observe it themselves, and inform one another. Now Jesus and His disciples went out to the towns of Caesarea Philippi; and on the road He asked His disciples, saying to them, Who do men say that I am? So they answered, John the Baptist; but some say, Elijah; and others, one of the prophets. He said to them, But who do you say that I am? Peter answered and said to Him, You are the Christ. Then He strictly warned them that they should tell no one about Him. . IV. Gospel: Mark 8:22-26 They came to Bethsaida, and some people brought a blind man and begged Jesus to touch him. May 25, 2017. There are many, who, though they cannot but own that the cause of Christ is a righteous cause, are ashamed of it, because of the reproach that attends the professing of it; they are ashamed of their relation to Christ, and ashamed of the credit they cannot but give to his words; they cannot bear to be frowned upon and despised, and therefore throw off their profession, and go down the stream of a prevailing apostasy. Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul? Providence gains the same end in different ways, that men may attend its motions with an implicit faith. Before they used the food of the little boy, but this time Jesus made the disciples give. They could have understood more if they applied themselves more. Full year revenue increased to $174.0 million, up 58% year-over-year; Gross booking value (GBV) of $798.4 million, up 53% year-over-year in 2022; Total bookings of 5.6 million, up Johannine Writings Scripture: Mark 8:34-38. 14 Now the disciples had forgotten to take bread, neither had they in the ship with them more than one loaf. (Mark 8:32b-33) Peter rebukes Jesus; Jesus rebukes Peter. 1. Is the record of those things designed only for an amusement, or to furnish us with matter for discourse? Johannine Writings I. He took himproslabomenos auton. It means that we have to associate ourselves with someone who was despised and executed. 18 Having eyes, see ye not? They shall not share with him in his glory then, that were not willing to share with him in his disgrace now. [4.] This wasnt so surprising after all. Do ye not remember how many baskets full ye took up of the fragments?" As Christ has a compassion for all that are in wants and straits, so he has a special concern for those that are reduced to straits by their zeal and diligence in attending on him. We had the story of a miracle very like this before, in this gospel (ch. b. John the Baptist; but some say, Elijah; and others, one of the prophets: People who thought that Jesus was John the Baptist didnt know much about Him, and they didnt know that Jesus and John had ministered at the same time. . He put His hands on his eyes again: This is the only gradual or progressive healing described in the ministry of Jesus. 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