Mark here (vv. 17-20) gives six keen questions of Jesus while Mt 16:8-11 gives as four that really include the six of Mark running some together. T…

Can we not learn from past experience? If the Lord has helped us before, is he not equally ready to help us again? What! When there are only a few …

Theophylact of Ohrid: After our Lord had worked the miracle of the loaves, He immediately withdrew to another place so that…

Jesus rebuked his disciples for their lack of understanding. They were like those on the outside (cf. 4:11–12) who had eyes but did not see and ear…

Having eyes, see you not ?
&c.] Meaning perhaps both the eyes of their bodies, and of their understandings: they had…

Obstinate unbelief will have something to say, however unreasonable. Christ refused to answer their demand. If they will not be convinced, they wil…