He began to teach them (ηρξατο διδασκειν αυτους). Mark is fond of this idiom, but it is not a mere rhetorical device.[Reference Ma…

And he began to teach them.—See Notes on Matthew 16:21-23.

The points peculiar to St. Mark are:

1. that our Lord spok…

Theophylact of Ohrid: After taking His disciples far from the Jews, He then asks them about Himself, so that they could spe…

Having accepted Peter’s ascription of his being “the Christ,” Jesus now began to teach his disciples what me iahship really meant. Yet he did not r…

And he began to teach them
For as yet he had said nothing to them about his sufferings and death, at least in expres…

These things are written, that we may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God. These miracles of our Lord assure us that he was n…