Jesus asks four pungent questions about the intellectual dulness, refers to the feeding of the five thousand and uses the word κοφινους (14:20) for…

Take heed. That is, be cautious, be on your guard.

The leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees. Leaven is used in mak…

O you of little faith — Our Lord does not reprove the lack of discernment that made the disciples slow to grasp the meaning of the…

Lack of faith made them so dull and carnal. Lack of bread would not have troubled them if they had possessed more grace. Our Lord essentially says …

Glossa Ordinaria: As the Lord had left the Pharisees because of their unbelief, He now teaches His disciples to be on their gu…

Because they were men of little faith (v.8; cf. 6:30; 8:26; 14:31), they came to an unimaginative conclusion. Jesus could not have been talking abo…

Why do you think within yourselves, etc.? The disciples again show how little they had learned from the instructions of their Master and f…

Which when Jesus perceived
Without hearing any of their debates, but by his omniscience; for he knew the doubts and …

Christ speaks of spiritual things using a comparison, and the disciples misunderstand him, taking his words to refer to carnal things. He was displ…

Previously, the Lord demonstrated the sufficiency of the Gospel teaching, showing that it does not require legal observances and, furthermore, that…