Ministers of Christ, notwithstanding all the displays of his power and grace, have much remaining unbelief and hardness of heart. They need the constant influences of his Spirit, and should be watchful and prayerful, lest, after having preached to others, they themselves should be cast away.
Verse Mark 6:52. _THEIR HEART WAS HARDENED._] See this explained Matthew 14:33....
See this passage explained in the notes at Matthew 14:22. Mark 6:52 THEY CONSIDERED NOT THE MIRACLE OF THE LOAVES - They did not remember or call to mind the “power” which Jesus had shown in feeding...
CHAPTER 6 _ 1. The Servant rejected in Nazareth. (Mark 6:1. Matthew 13:54; Luke 4:16)_ 2. The Servant sends forth the Twelve. (Mark 6:7 .
JESUS DISMISSES THE CROWD AND WALKS ON THE SEA. The first verses of this section apparently touch on an unexplained crisis in the life of Jesus. Why does He compel the disciples to leave Him? Why does...
Immediately he made the disciples embark on the boat and go across ahead to Bethsaida while he sent the crowd away. When he had taken leave of them, he went away into a mountain to pray. When it was l...
WITHOUT HONOR IN HIS OWN COUNTRY (Mark 6:1-6)...
FOR &c. Verse 52 is. Divine supplement, here. THE MIRACLE OF THE LOAVES. concerning (Greek. _epi_. App-104.) the loaves. HARDENED. Referring to the habitual state....
_hardened_ See note above, Mark 3:5....
ἈΛΛʼ ἮΝ ([1313][1314][1315][1316]) rather than ἦν γάρ ([1317][1318][1313] Codex Sinaiticus. 4th cent. Discovered by Tischendorf in 1859 at the Monastery of St Katharine on Mount Sinai. Now at St Peter...
45–52. THE WALKING ON THE WATER Matthew 14:22-33; John 6:16-21...
Ver 45. And straightway He constrained His disciples to get into the ship, and to go to the other side before unto Bethsaida, while He sent away the people. 46. And when He had sent them away, He depa...
_JESUS PERFORMED GREAT MIRACLES MARK 6:45-56:_ Jesus sent the disciples across the sea to Bethsaida. He stayed behind to send the multitude away. After He sent them away He went up into a mountain to...
ΣΥΝΉΚΑΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΣΥΝΊΗΜΙ (G4920) постигать, понимать, ΠΕΠΩΡΩΜΈΝΗ _perf. pass. part. от_ ΠΩΡΌΩ (G4455) твердеть, натирать мозоль (AS). _Perf._ изображает состояние или степень жесткости....
DISCOURSE: 1428 CHRISTIAN GRATITUDE DELINEATED Mark 6:51. _And he went up unto them into the ship; and the wind ceased: and they were sore amazed in themselves beyond measure, and wondered. For they...
FOR THEY CONSIDERED NOT, &C.— 'Ου γαρ συνηκαν : they had not a properideaof his miraculous power, demonstrated in that wonderful miracle; because if they had, his walking on the sea, and making the st...
8. JESUS WALKING ON THE WATER 6:45-52 _TEXT 6:45-52_ And straightway he constrained his disciples to enter into the boat, and to go before him unto the other side to Bethsaida, while he himself sende...
_SUMMARY 6:1_7:23 The testimony for Jesus furnished by the preceding section, is based chiefly on the opinions which men formed concerning him. The disciples, though slow and hard of heart to realize...
For they considered not the miracle of the loaves: for their heart was hardened. FOR THEY CONSIDERED NOT THE MIRACLE OF THE LOAVES: FOR THEIR HEART WAS HARDENED. What a singular statement! The mean...
43 To fully appreciate the import of this sign, it must be compared with a similar one which occurred some time later. The cumulative contrast cannot be fully seen in an inaccurate version, but is rea...
6:52 through (d-5) Or '[even] after.' The 'through' ( _ epi_ ) denotes the occasion for their believing....
WALKING ON THE SEA (Matthew 14:22; John 6:15). See on Mt and Jn....
VISIT TO NAZARETH. MISSION OF THE TWELVE. EXECUTION OF THE BAPTIST. FEEDING OF THE FIVE THOUSAND. WALKING ON THE SEA 1-6. Visit to Nazareth (Matthew 13:54)....
CHRIST IN THE BIBLE: MARK’S GOSPEL _KEITH SIMONS_ This commentary HAS BEEN through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 6 JESUS IN NAZARETH VERSES 1-6 Everywhere that Jesus went, the crowds came. They w...
CHAPTER 4:35-41; 6:47-52 (MARK 4:35; MARK 6:47) THE TWO STORMS (JESUS WALKING ON THE WATER) "And on that day, when even was come, He saith unto them, Let us go over unto the other side. And leaving t...
_Another sea-anecdote_ (Matthew 14:22-33). Luke drops out here and does not join his brother evangelists till we come to Mark 8:27....
reflects on the astonishment of the Twelve as blameworthy in view of the recent feeding of the multitude. One might rather have expected a reference to the stilling of the storm in crossing to Decapol...
THE SYMPATHY AND COMPASSION OF JESUS Mark 6:30-56 When the Apostles returned they had much to tell. Some were flushed with success, others radiant with victory over demons, others, perhaps, overstrai...
"He could there do no mighty work." Not that He in Himself was unable, for His hands laid on a few sick folk brought healing, but that the condition of wilful and persistent unbelief limited the power...
For they (z) considered not [the miracle] of the loaves: for their heart was hardened. (z) Either they did not perceive, or had not well considered that miracle of the five loaves, to the point that...
_They understood not concerning the loaves; [3] i.e. they did not reflect how great a miracle that was which Christ had lately wrought, otherwise they would not have been so much surprised at his walk...
JESUS WALKS UPON THE WATER Matthew 14:22-36; Mark 6:45-56; & John 6:15-21. Mark: “And immediately He constrained His disciples to go into the ship, and to proceed before Him to the other side, toward...
(47) And when even was come, the ship was in the midst of the sea, and he alone on the land. (48) And he saw them toiling in rowing; for the wind was contrary unto them: and about the fourth watch of...
It is remarkable how tradition has contrived to injure the truth in touching the question of the method of the gospel we now enter on; for the current view which comes down to us from the ancients, st...
In that which follows, the history (properly so called) of His service is resumed (chapter 6). Only we see Him already rejected by a blinded people, in spite of the power which He had manifested, and...
FOR THEY CONSIDERED NOT THE MIRACLE OF THE LOAVES,.... Which they had seen but the day before; they did not attend to it, nor learn from it, as they might, the wonderful glory of Christ, and the great...
Mark 6:52. "For they considered not the miracle of the loaves, for their hearts were hardened." By hardness of heart here, and in other places, is intended so largely as to take in blindness of mind,...
For an explanation of these verses, see the notes on Matthew 14:22....
Jesus walking on the sea:...
FOR THEY CONSIDERED NOT THE MIRACLE OF THE LOAVES; FOR THEIR HEART WAS HARDENED. In the late afternoon the disciples had left the eastern shore, and when night came on, they had not yet crossed the la...
SERMON #1 TITLE: Pass Me Not TEXT: Mark 6:45-56 PROPOSITION: We must consider the personal and individual viewpoint of salvation. QUESTION: Which? KEY WORD: Viewpoints READING: Same INTRODUCTION: 1....
45-56 The church is often like a ship at sea, tossed with tempests, and not comforted: we may have Christ for us, yet wind and tide against us; but it is a comfort to Christ's disciples in a storm, t...
SEE POOLE ON "MARK 6:47...
Mark 6:52 For G1063 not G3756 understood G4920 (G5656) about G1909 loaves G740 because G1063 their G846 heart...
‘And they were greatly amazed in themselves, for they did not understand about the loaves, but their heart was hardened.' Mark sums up their position. They were full of amazement (and in their amazeme...
JESUS COMES TO HIS DISCIPLES IN THEIR NEED, WALKING ON THE WATER (6:45-53). As ever in salvation history the blessing is to be followed by trial. Having been fed by God they must now learn that times...
THE WIDER MINISTRY BEGINS - THE APOSTLES ARE SENT OUT - OPPOSITION CONTINUES (6:6A-56). Having established that Jesus is Lord of the elements, Lord over evil spirits and Lord over life and death, Mark...
Mark 6:52. FOR THEY UNDERSTOOD NOT CONCERNING THE LOAVES, lit, ‘ _on_ the loaves.' ‘There was no intelligent comprehension _founded_ on the miracle of the loaves. They did not from the miracle they ha...
SEE notes on Matthew 14:22-36; John 6:15-25. Mark omits the attempt of Peter to walk on the water; otherwise his account closely resembles that of Matthew, but with the usual variations. Mark 6:45-47....
FOR THEY UNDERSTOOD NOT (ου γαρ συνηκαν). Explanation of their excessive amazement, viz., their failure to grasp the full significance of the miracle of the loaves and fishes, a nature miracle. Her...
CONTENTS: The twelve sent out to preach. Murder of John the Baptist. The 5000 fed. Jesus walks on the sea. Jesus heals many at Gennesaret. CHARACTERS: Jesus, disciples, Herod, Herodias, her daughter,...
Mark 6:3. _Is not this the carpenter?_ The jews were bound to teach their children some trade, as no man could say what the vicissitudes of life might be. Hence Lightfoot cites the following passage f...
_For they considered not the miracle of the loaves._ THE MIRACLE OF THE LOAVES The disciples “were sore amazed in themselves beyond measure, and wondered.” Had the miracle of the loaves been duly co...
MARK—NOTE ON MARK 6:14 The death of John the Baptist casts an ominous shadow on Jesus’ future. Jesus’ life is in danger, partly because of his authoritative, miraculous deeds. ⇐
MARK—NOTE ON MARK 6:51 Even though Jesus had multiplied the LOAVES and had walked on the water, the disciples’ HEARTS WERE HARDENED and they didn’t realize who he was. See...
JESUS WALKS ON WATER MATTHEW 14:22-33; MARK 6:45-52; JOHN 6:16-21; MATTHEW 14:22 And straightway Jesus constrained his disciples
CHAPTER 6 1 _Christ is contemned of his countrymen_. 7 _He giveth the twelve power over unclean spirits_. 14 _Divers opinions of Christ_. 27 _John Baptist is beheaded_, 29 _and buried_. 30 _The apostl...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ Mark 6:49. A SPIRIT.—_A phantasm_ or _apparition_. Mark 6:52. HARDENED.—_Become dull_—insusceptible and irresponsible to spiritual impressions. See chaps, Mark 3:5,...
EXPOSITION MARK 6:1 Our Lord now left the neighbourhood of Capernaum, and came INTO HIS OWN COUNTRY, the district of Nazareth, where he had been, not born indeed, but brought up, and where his kinsfo...
Shall we turn to Mark's gospel, chapter 6. Jesus had been in the city of Capernaum there on the northern part of the Sea of Galilee. And He has just brought back to life the daughter of Jairus, one of...
Isaiah 63:17; Luke 24:25; Mark 16:14; Mark 3:5; Mark 7:18;...
Peculiar to Mark. The miracle of the loaves [ε π ι τ ο ι ς α ρ τ ο ι ς]. Rev., concerning the loaves. Lit., upon; in the matter of. They did not reason from the multiplying of the loaves to the still...
Their heart was hardened — And yet they were not reprobates. It means only, they were slow and dull of apprehension....