In this chapter, we have, I. Christ’s miraculous feeding of four thousand with seven loaves and a few small fishes, Mark 8:1–9. II. His refusing to give the Pharisees a sign from heaven, Mark 8:10–13. III.

We had the story of a miracle very like this before, in this gospel , and of this same miracle , and here is little or no addition or alternation as to the circumstances. Yet observe, 1.

Still Christ is upon motion; now he visits the parts of Dalmanutha, that no corner of the land of Israel might say that they had not had his presence with them.

This cure is related only by this evangelist, and there is something singular in the circumstances. I. Here is a blind man brought to Christ by his friends, with a desire that he would touch him, Mark 8:22.

We have read a great deal of the doctrine Christ preached, and the miracles he wrought, which were many, and strange, and well-attested, of various kinds, and wrought in several places, to the astonishment of the multitudes that were eye-witnesses of them.