Teks -- Mark 8:1 (NET)

The Feeding of the Four Thousand

8:1 In those days there was another large crowd with nothing to eat. So Jesus called his disciples and said to them,

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Robertson: Mar 8:1 - Had nothing to eat

Had nothing to eat ( mē echontōn ti phagōsin ).

Genitive absolute and plural because ochlou a collective substantive. Not having what to eat (deliberative subjunctive retained in indirect question). The repetition of a nature miracle of feeding four thousand in Decapolis disturbs some modern critics who cannot imagine how Jesus could or would perform another miracle elsewhere so similar to the feeding of the five thousand up near Bethsaida Julias. But both Mark and Matthew give both miracles, distinguish the words for baskets (kophinos , sphuris ), and both make Jesus later refer to both incidents and use these two words with the same distinction (Mar 8:19.; Mat 16:9.). Surely it is easier to conceive that Jesus wrought two such miracles than to hold that Mark and Matthew have made such a jumble of the whole business.

Wesley: Mar 8:1

Mat 15:32.

Clarke: Mar 8:1 - The multitude being very great

The multitude being very great - Or rather, There was again a great multitude. Instead of παμπολλου, very great, I read παλιν πολλου, again a great, which is the reading of BDGLM, fourteen others, all the Arabic, Coptic, Ethiopic, Armenian, Gothic, Vulgate, and Itala, and of many Evangelistaria. Griesbach approves of this reading. There had been such a multitude gathered together once before, who were fed in the same way. See Mar 6:34, etc.

TSK: Mar 8:1

Mat 15:32-39

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Mar 8:1 - See Poole on "Mat 15:32"

Mar 8:1-9 Christ miraculously feedeth four thousand persons.

Mar 8:10-13 He refuseth the Pharisees a sign.

Mar 8:14-21 He warns his disciples against the leaven of the

Pharisees and of Herod, and explains his meaning.

Mar 8:22-26 He giveth a blind man sight.

Mar 8:27-30 The people’ s opinions, and Peter’ s confession, of him.

Mar 8:31-33 He foreshows his own death, and rebukes Peter for

dissuading him from it.

Mar 8:34-38 He shows his followers that they must deny themselves,

and not be ashamed of him and his gospel.

Ver. 1-9. These verses give us an account of another miracle wrought by our Saviour, of the same nature with the one which we had in Mar 6:30-44 ; only there five thousand (besides women and children) were fed with five loaves and two fishes, here four thousand are fed with seven loaves and a few fishes; there twelve baskets full of fragments were taken up, here but seven. We meet with the same history in Mat 15:32-38 ;

See Poole on "Mat 15:32" , and following verses to Mat 15:38 . Both miracles testified Christ to have acted by a Divine power, and were certainly wrought to prove that the doctrine which he delivered to them was from God; both of them show the compassion that he had for the sons of men, showed to them not only with relation to their spiritual, but also to their corporal wants and infirmities. In both of them is commended to us, from his great example, the religious custom of begging a blessing upon our food when we sit down to it, and receiving the good creatures of God with thanksgiving. From both of them we may learn, in the doing of our duty, not to be too solicitous what we shall eat, or what we shall drink. God will some way or other provide for those who neglect themselves to follow him. From both we may also learn our duty to take a provident care to make no waste of the good things which God lends us. These are the chief things this history affords us for our instruction.

Gill: Mar 8:1 - In those days // the multitude being very great // And having nothing to eat // Jesus called his disciples to him, and saith unto them

In those days,.... The Ethiopic version reads, on that day; as if it was on the same day that the deaf man was healed; and so it might be; and on the third day from Christ's coming into those parts; and so is very properly expressed, "in those days"; see Mar 7:31, compared with the following verse:

the multitude being very great: for the number of men that ate, when the following miracle was wrought, were about four thousand; see Mar 8:9. The Vulgate Latin, Arabic, and Ethiopic versions add, "again"; referring to the former miracle of the five thousand, who were fed with five loaves, and two fishes, Mar 6:44.

And having nothing to eat; what they might have brought with them being expended, and they in a desert, where nothing was to be had, nor bought for money:

Jesus called his disciples to him, and saith unto them; See Gill on Mat 15:32.