How many baskets—The distinction between the two kinds of baskets—the cophini and the spurides—is, as noted befo…

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…

Do you not understand
Meaning either the sense of the advice he had now given; or rather his almighty power displaye…

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…