Mark 8:26

And he sent him away to his house, saying, Neither go into the town, nor tell it to any in the town. AND HE SENT HIM AWAY TO HIS HOUSE, SAYING, NEITHER GO INTO THE TOWN NOR TELL TO ANY IN THE TOWN. Besides the usual reasons against going about "blazing the matter," retirement in this case would be salutary to himself. Remarks: (1) When our Lord was about to open the ears and loose the tongue of the deaf man who had an impediment in his speech, our Evangelist says that He looked up to heaven and sighed (); but when He had to reply to the captious petulance which sought of Him, amidst a profusion of signs, a sign from heaven, he says He sighed deeply in His spirit. Nor can we wonder. For if the spectacle of what sin had done affected Him deeply, how much more deeply would sin itself affect Him; when exhibited in so trying a form! And occurr...

26._And he sent him away to his house. _Christ does not suffer him to return to _Bethsaida_, where there were many that had beheld the miracle. This is conjectured by some to have been done, because Christ intended to punish the inhabitants of that place by depriving them of the enjoyment of his favor. Whatever might be the reason, it is certain that no miracle was performed by him in order to remain perpetually buried, but that he intended to have it concealed along with many others, till, after having expiated by his death the sins of the world, (435) he should ascend to the glory of the Father....

22-26 Here is a blind man brought to Christ by his friends. Therein appeared the faith of those that brought him. If those who are spiritually blind, do not pray for themselves, yet their friends and relations should pray for them, that Christ would be pleased to touch them. The cure was wrought gradually, which was not usual in our Lord's miracles. Christ showed in what method those commonly are healed by his grace, who by nature are spiritually blind. At first, their knowledge is confused; but, like the light of the morning, it shines more and more to the perfect day, and then they see all things clearly. Slighting Christ's favours is forfeiting them; and he will make those who do so know the worth of privileges by the want of them....

Verse 26. _HE SENT HIM AWAY TO HIS HOUSE_] So it appears that this person did not belong to _Bethsaida_, for, in going to _his_ _house_, he was _not to enter into the village_. This miracle is not mentioned by any other of the evangelists. It affords _another_ proof that Mark did not _abridge_ Matthew's Gospel....

THE TOWN - The town of Bethsaida. NOR TELL IT ... - Lest it excite the jealousy of the Pharisees, and produce commotion and danger....

EXPOSITION MARK 8:1, MARK 8:2 The opening words of the first verse seem to imply that our Lord remained for some time on this, the north-east, side of the Sea of Galilee. THE MULTITUDE BEING VERY GREAT. The word here rendered "very great" is παμπόλλου, a word not to be found anywhere else in the New Testament. But according to the best authorities, the true reading is πάλιν πόλλου; so that the words would run, _when there was again a great multitude. _It has been supposed with some reason that, as an old ecclesiastical Lection began with this chapter, this may have led to the substitution of παμπόλλου for πάλιν πόλλου, in order to make the Lection more complete in itself, avoiding this reference to the context. In the origina

AND HE SENT HIM AWAY TO HIS HOUSE,.... Which seems to have been in one of the neighbouring villages or was one of the houses scattered about in the fields for the conveniency of rural business. SAYING, NEITHER GO INTO THE TOWN: or "that town", as the Syriac, the town or city of Bethsaida: NOR TELL IT TO ANY IN THE TOWN; to any of the inhabitants of the town that he should meet with any where or at any time: the reason of this was not merely or only because Christ would have the miracle concealed; but chiefly because the inhabitants of this place were notorious for their impenitence and unbelief. Christ had done many wonderful works among them and yet they repented not; nor did they believe in him; but despised him, his doctrine and his miracles; and therefore for their neglect and contempt of such means he was determined to withdraw them from them. So Christ sometimes deals with nation...

Mark 8:1. _In those days the multitude being very great, and having nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples unto him, and saith unto them, I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now been with me three days, and have nothing to eat: and if I send them away fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the way: for divers of them came from far. And his disciples answered him, From whence can a man satisfy these men with bread here in the wilderness._ Why did they not ask their Master what he could do in such an emergency as that» After so much experience of his power as they had already had, it is wonderful that they did not refer the matter to him, and say, «Lord, thou canst feed the multitude; we beseech thee do it.» But they did not act so wisely; instead, they began questioning about ways and means. «From whence can a man satisfy these men with bread here in the wi...

MARK 8:26 mhde. eivj th.n kw,mhn eivse,lqh|j {B} The development of the principal variant readings seems to have proceeded as follows: (1) mhde. eivj th.n kw,mhn eivse,lqh|j (ac B L ¦1 syrs copsa, bo, fay) (2) mhdeni. ei;ph|j evn th|/ kw,mh| (itk) (3) mhde. eivj th.n kw,mhn eivse,lqh|j mhde. ei;ph|j tini. evn th|/ kw,mh| (A C…_al_) (4) u[page eivj to.n oi=ko,n sou kai. mhdeni. ei;ph|j (parent of the following)(4_a_) kai, + eva.n eivj th.n kw,mhn eivse,lqh|j (Q itb, l...

CHAPTER 8 __ 1. The feeding of the Four Thousand. (Mark 8:1. Matthew 15:32) 2. The Pharisees ask a sign. (Mark 8:10 .Matthew 16:1) 3. The Warning against the leaven of the Pharisees. (Mark 8:14 .Matthew 16:5 .) 4. The healing of the blind man. (Mark 8:22) 5. Peter's Confession. (M