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    Mark 8

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    After two vast meals and twelve baskets, then seven, the disciples sit in a boat with one loaf and conclude that the trouble is bread.

    Seven loaves, seven baskets, and one loaf in the boatvv. 1–21

    A crowd has stayed with Jesus for three days in a desolate place, and hunger has become an actual logistical concern. Seven loaves and a few small fish become dinner for about four thousand, with seven basketfuls left over. Then the Pharisees demand a sign, Jesus leaves them, and the disciples promptly begin discussing their lack of bread—while carrying one loaf. Jesus responds with an examination in arithmetic: twelve baskets from the five thousand, seven from the four thousand, and finally, “Do you still not understand?”

    People like trees walking aroundvv. 22–26

    At Bethsaida, some people bring Jesus a blind man and beg for a touch. Jesus leads him out of the village, touches his eyes, and receives an unusual progress report: the man can see people, but they look like trees walking about. A second placing of the hands completes the matter, and Jesus sends him home with a firm instruction not to return to the village.

    The Christ, and the road no one expectedvv. 27–38

    On the way around Caesarea Philippi, Jesus asks what people are saying about Him. The answers range from John the Baptist to Elijah and one of the prophets; Peter gives the answer Jesus is asking for: “You are the Christ.” The conversation immediately takes a sharp turn. Jesus speaks openly of suffering, rejection, death, and rising again, and Peter rebukes Him. Jesus rebukes Peter in return, then calls the crowd and disciples together for words about the cross, losing life, the soul, and the Son of Man coming in His Father’s glory with the holy angels.

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    1. Mark 8:1In those days the crowd once again became very large, and they had nothing to eat. Jesus called the disciples to Him and said,

    2. Mark 8:2“I have compassion for this crowd, because they have already been with Me three days and have nothing to eat.

    3. Mark 8:3If I send them home hungry, they will faint along the way. For some of them have come a great distance.”

    4. Mark 8:4His disciples replied, “Where in this desolate place could anyone find enough bread to feed all these people?”

    5. Mark 8:5“How many loaves do you have?” Jesus asked. “Seven,” they replied.

    6. Mark 8:6And He instructed the crowd to sit down on the ground. Then He took the seven loaves, gave thanks and broke them, and gave them to His disciples to set before the people. And they distributed them to the crowd.

    7. Mark 8:7They also had a few small fish, and Jesus blessed them and ordered that these be set before them as well.

    8. Mark 8:8The people ate and were satisfied, and the disciples picked up seven basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over.

    9. Mark 8:9And about four thousand men were present. And when Jesus had dismissed the crowd,

    10. Mark 8:10He immediately got into the boat with His disciples and went to the district of Dalmanutha.

    11. Mark 8:11Then the Pharisees came and began to argue with Jesus, testing Him by demanding from Him a sign from heaven.

    12. Mark 8:12Jesus sighed deeply in His spirit and said, “Why does this generation demand a sign? Truly I tell you, no sign will be given to this generation.”

    13. Mark 8:13And He left them, got back into the boat, and crossed to the other side.

    14. Mark 8:14Now the disciples had forgotten to take bread, except for one loaf they had with them in the boat.

    15. Mark 8:15“Watch out!” He cautioned them. “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of Herod.”

    16. Mark 8:16So they began to discuss with one another the fact that they had no bread.

    17. Mark 8:17Aware of their conversation, Jesus asked them, “Why are you debating about having no bread? Do you still not see or understand? Do you have such hard hearts?

    18. Mark 8:18‘Having eyes, do you not see? And having ears, do you not hear?’ And do you not remember?

    19. Mark 8:19When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many basketfuls of broken pieces did you collect?” “Twelve,” they answered.

    20. Mark 8:20“And when I broke the seven loaves for the four thousand, how many basketfuls of broken pieces did you collect?” “Seven,” they said.

    21. Mark 8:21Then He asked them, “Do you still not understand?”

    22. Mark 8:22When they arrived at Bethsaida, some people brought a blind man and begged Jesus to touch him.

    23. Mark 8:23So He took the blind man by the hand and led him out of the village. Then He spit on the man’s eyes and placed His hands on him. “Can you see anything?” He asked.

    24. Mark 8:24The man looked up and said, “I can see the people, but they look like trees walking around.”

    25. Mark 8:25Once again Jesus placed His hands on the man’s eyes, and when he opened them his sight was restored, and he could see everything clearly.

    26. Mark 8:26Jesus sent him home and said, “Do not go back into the village.”

    27. Mark 8:27Then Jesus and His disciples went on to the villages around Caesarea Philippi. On the way, He questioned His disciples: “Who do people say I am?”

    28. Mark 8:28They replied, “Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, one of the prophets.”

    29. Mark 8:29“But what about you?” Jesus asked. “Who do you say I am?” Peter answered, “You are the Christ.”

    30. Mark 8:30And Jesus warned them not to tell anyone about Him.

    31. Mark 8:31Then He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and that He must be killed and after three days rise again.

    32. Mark 8:32He spoke this message quite frankly, and Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him.

    33. Mark 8:33But Jesus, turning and looking at His disciples, rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind Me, Satan! For you do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men.”

    34. Mark 8:34Then Jesus called the crowd to Him along with His disciples, and He told them, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me.

    35. Mark 8:35For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and for the gospel will save it.

    36. Mark 8:36What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?

    37. Mark 8:37Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?

    38. Mark 8:38If anyone is ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him when He comes in His Father’s glory with the holy angels.”

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    • 18Acts 28:26–27‘Go to this people and say, “You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.”
    • 18Matthew 13:14–15In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled: ‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.
    • 18Jeremiah 5:21“Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.
    • 18Mark 4:12so that, ‘they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven.’”
    • 18Ezekiel 12:2“Son of man, you are living in a rebellious house. They have eyes to see but do not see, and ears to hear but do not hear, for they are a rebellious house.
    • 18John 12:40“He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, so that they cannot see with their eyes, and understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.”
    • 18Isaiah 6:9–10And He replied: “Go and tell this people, ‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’
    • 18Isaiah 42:18–20Listen, you deaf ones; look, you blind ones, that you may see!
    • 18Romans 11:8as it is written: “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that could not see, and ears that could not hear, to this very day.”
    • 18Psalms 115:5–8They have mouths, but cannot speak; they have eyes, but cannot see;
    • 18Deuteronomy 29:4Yet to this day the LORD has not given you a mind to understand, eyes to see, or ears to hear.
    • 18Psalms 69:23May their eyes be darkened so they cannot see, and their backs be bent forever.
    • 34Matthew 10:38and anyone who does not take up his cross and follow Me is not worthy of Me.
    • 36Matthew 16:26What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?
    • 36Luke 9:25What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet lose or forfeit his very self?
    • 36Psalms 49:17For when he dies, he will carry nothing away; his abundance will not follow him down.

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