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Mark 8
Mark 8 is the eighth chapter of the Gospel of Mark in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It contains two miracles of Jesus, Peter's confession that he believes Jesus is the Messiah, and Jesus' first prediction of his own death and resurrection. It is the middle chapter of the gospel but its significance is variously understood: for example the Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary calls it a "section of miscellaneous matter", whereas many commentators treat it as a turning point where Mark's description of Jesus as teacher and miracle worker gives way to his focus on the role of Jesus' death and the difficult nature of his teachings.
The original text was written in Koine Greek. This chapter is divided into 38 verses. There are 39 verses in the Douai-Rheims version.
Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter are:
The events recorded in this chapter take place in the Galilean wilderness and around the Sea of Galilee, at Dalmanutha, an unknown location sometimes thought to be in the vicinity of Magdala, Bethsaida, and the towns (Greek: τὰς κώμας, tas komas, also translated as "villages") around Caesarea Philippi. The latter location was 25–30 miles to the north of Bethsaida. Scottish Free Church minister William Robertson Nicoll suggests that Jesus' enquiry, "Who do people say that I am?”, is asked "on the way to Caesarea Philippi, probably when the city ... came into view".
Mark also begins his account of Jesus' journey from Nazareth to the Jordan, to be baptised, with the words "in those days". The multitude is noted as being "very great again" (Greek: πάλιν, palin) in some versions, as the critical Westcott-Hort edition of Mark uses this word. However, the Textus Receptus has another word, Greek: παμπόλλου, pampollou, meaning "very many", which is not used elsewhere in the New Testament. Protestant theologian Heinrich Meyer suggests that "παμπόλλου ... might very easily have been changed into πάλιν πολλοῦ, as πάλιν was used in Mark so frequently", and therefore παμπόλλου is more likely to have been the original word. The New International Version speaks of "another large crowd", and similarly American pastor Nate Holdridge calls this group "a new crowd".
Like Mark 6:30–44, verses 1–9 here recount Jesus feeding a large crowd with hardly any food at all. He is teaching a large and loyal crowd, "about four thousand men", in a remote place; they have been with him for three days, and everyone is hungry; they only have seven loaves of bread and an imprecise number of small fish. Jesus takes the bread, gives thanks to God, and breaks the bread, and the disciples then distribute it. The text in Greek uses the word εὐχαριστήσας, eucharistesas, to describe his actions. He also blesses the fish and commands that these be set before the crowd. To theologian John Gill, "it looks, by this account, as if the fishes were blessed, and brake, and distributed separately, alter [sic] the blessing, breaking, and distribution of the bread; and so the Syriac version renders it, 'upon whom also he blessed'; and the Persic thus, 'and he also blessed the fishes'". After everyone has eaten they fill seven baskets of leftover food. Matthew also records this in chapter 15:29–39 but neither Luke nor John have this, yet both record the preceding feeding of the 5000. Luke progresses straight from the feeding of the 5000 to Peter's confession. Skeptical scholars have concluded that this is just a doubling of the story in Mark 6 with only a few details changed, such as the number of loaves and baskets,[citation needed] although in the subsequent passage, Mark 8:19–21, Jesus refers to both events during a dialogue with his disciples about their lack of understanding.
They leave in a boat and go to Dalmanutha, which is listed in Matthew as Magadan and some early manuscripts of Mark as Magdala, home of Mary Magdalene. There Jesus encounters the Pharisees, who ask him to perform a miracle for them. "He sighed deeply in his spirit" (verse 12, cf. Mark 2:8), words not included in Matthew's account. Nicoll picks up "a sense of irreconcilable enmity, invincible unbelief, and coming doom" in the phrase. Jesus then asks, "Why does this generation ask for a miraculous sign? I tell you the truth, no sign will be given to it." Matthew and Luke say that only the Sign of Jonah will be given (Matthew 12:38–39, 16:1–4, Luke 11:29–30). See also Signs Gospel. They leave in a boat. On the other side of the lake, presumably the Sea of Galilee, they find they have only brought one loaf of bread. Jesus tells his disciples to be careful and to "watch out for the yeast of the Pharisees and that of Herod" (15), criticizing the Pharisees after his last encounter with them. His disciples think he is scolding them for not having enough bread, but Jesus instead scolds them for not understanding him:
"Eyes which do not see, and ears which do not hear" recalls a similar expression in Ezekiel 12:2; the hardened hearts reflect the same expression in Mark 6:52.
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Mark 8
Mark 8 is the eighth chapter of the Gospel of Mark in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It contains two miracles of Jesus, Peter's confession that he believes Jesus is the Messiah, and Jesus' first prediction of his own death and resurrection. It is the middle chapter of the gospel but its significance is variously understood: for example the Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary calls it a "section of miscellaneous matter", whereas many commentators treat it as a turning point where Mark's description of Jesus as teacher and miracle worker gives way to his focus on the role of Jesus' death and the difficult nature of his teachings.
The original text was written in Koine Greek. This chapter is divided into 38 verses. There are 39 verses in the Douai-Rheims version.
Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter are:
The events recorded in this chapter take place in the Galilean wilderness and around the Sea of Galilee, at Dalmanutha, an unknown location sometimes thought to be in the vicinity of Magdala, Bethsaida, and the towns (Greek: τὰς κώμας, tas komas, also translated as "villages") around Caesarea Philippi. The latter location was 25–30 miles to the north of Bethsaida. Scottish Free Church minister William Robertson Nicoll suggests that Jesus' enquiry, "Who do people say that I am?”, is asked "on the way to Caesarea Philippi, probably when the city ... came into view".
Mark also begins his account of Jesus' journey from Nazareth to the Jordan, to be baptised, with the words "in those days". The multitude is noted as being "very great again" (Greek: πάλιν, palin) in some versions, as the critical Westcott-Hort edition of Mark uses this word. However, the Textus Receptus has another word, Greek: παμπόλλου, pampollou, meaning "very many", which is not used elsewhere in the New Testament. Protestant theologian Heinrich Meyer suggests that "παμπόλλου ... might very easily have been changed into πάλιν πολλοῦ, as πάλιν was used in Mark so frequently", and therefore παμπόλλου is more likely to have been the original word. The New International Version speaks of "another large crowd", and similarly American pastor Nate Holdridge calls this group "a new crowd".
Like Mark 6:30–44, verses 1–9 here recount Jesus feeding a large crowd with hardly any food at all. He is teaching a large and loyal crowd, "about four thousand men", in a remote place; they have been with him for three days, and everyone is hungry; they only have seven loaves of bread and an imprecise number of small fish. Jesus takes the bread, gives thanks to God, and breaks the bread, and the disciples then distribute it. The text in Greek uses the word εὐχαριστήσας, eucharistesas, to describe his actions. He also blesses the fish and commands that these be set before the crowd. To theologian John Gill, "it looks, by this account, as if the fishes were blessed, and brake, and distributed separately, alter [sic] the blessing, breaking, and distribution of the bread; and so the Syriac version renders it, 'upon whom also he blessed'; and the Persic thus, 'and he also blessed the fishes'". After everyone has eaten they fill seven baskets of leftover food. Matthew also records this in chapter 15:29–39 but neither Luke nor John have this, yet both record the preceding feeding of the 5000. Luke progresses straight from the feeding of the 5000 to Peter's confession. Skeptical scholars have concluded that this is just a doubling of the story in Mark 6 with only a few details changed, such as the number of loaves and baskets,[citation needed] although in the subsequent passage, Mark 8:19–21, Jesus refers to both events during a dialogue with his disciples about their lack of understanding.
They leave in a boat and go to Dalmanutha, which is listed in Matthew as Magadan and some early manuscripts of Mark as Magdala, home of Mary Magdalene. There Jesus encounters the Pharisees, who ask him to perform a miracle for them. "He sighed deeply in his spirit" (verse 12, cf. Mark 2:8), words not included in Matthew's account. Nicoll picks up "a sense of irreconcilable enmity, invincible unbelief, and coming doom" in the phrase. Jesus then asks, "Why does this generation ask for a miraculous sign? I tell you the truth, no sign will be given to it." Matthew and Luke say that only the Sign of Jonah will be given (Matthew 12:38–39, 16:1–4, Luke 11:29–30). See also Signs Gospel. They leave in a boat. On the other side of the lake, presumably the Sea of Galilee, they find they have only brought one loaf of bread. Jesus tells his disciples to be careful and to "watch out for the yeast of the Pharisees and that of Herod" (15), criticizing the Pharisees after his last encounter with them. His disciples think he is scolding them for not having enough bread, but Jesus instead scolds them for not understanding him:
"Eyes which do not see, and ears which do not hear" recalls a similar expression in Ezekiel 12:2; the hardened hearts reflect the same expression in Mark 6:52.