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In those days, when there was a very great multitude, and they had nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples to himself and said to them, See also: Matthew 15:32-39Mark 6:34-44“I have compassion on the multitude, because they have stayed with me now three days and have nothing to eat. See also: Matthew 9:36Micah 7:19Psalms 145:15If I send them away fasting to their home, they will faint on the way, for some of them have come a long way.” See also: Isaiah 40:31Judges 8:4-61 Samuel 14:28-31His disciples answered him, “From where could one satisfy these people with bread here in a deserted place?” See also: Matthew 15:33Mark 6:52Mark 6:36-37He asked them, “How many loaves do you have?” They said, “Seven.” See also: Matthew 14:15-17Matthew 15:34Luke 9:13He commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground, and he took the seven loaves. Having given thanks, he broke them and gave them to his disciples to serve, and they served the multitude. See also: Colossians 3:17Matthew 15:35-36Matthew 14:18-19They also had a few small fish. Having blessed them, he said to serve these also. See also: Matthew 14:19John 21:8-9John 21:5They ate and were filled. They took up seven baskets of broken pieces that were left over. See also: Psalms 145:16Matthew 16:10Psalms 107:8-9Those who had eaten were about four thousand. Then he sent them away. Immediately he entered into the boat with his disciples and came into the region of Dalmanutha. See also: Matthew 15:39The Pharisees came out and began to question him, seeking from him a sign from heaven and testing him. See also: Matthew 12:381 Corinthians 10:9John 4:48He sighed deeply in his spirit and said, “Why does this generation seek a sign? Most certainly I tell you, no sign will be given to this generation.” See also: Matthew 12:39-40Matthew 16:4Mark 7:34He left them, and again entering into the boat, departed to the other side. See also: Acts 18:6Matthew 7:6Acts 13:45-46They forgot to take bread; and they didn’t have more than one loaf in the boat with them. See also: Matthew 16:5He warned them, saying, “Take heed: beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod.” See also: 1 Corinthians 5:6-8Matthew 16:6Matthew 16:11-12They reasoned with one another, saying, “It’s because we have no bread.” See also: Matthew 16:7-8Luke 9:46Luke 20:5Jesus, perceiving it, said to them, “Why do you reason that it’s because you have no bread? Don’t you perceive yet or understand? Is your heart still hardened? See also: Mark 6:52Hebrews 5:11-12Mark 2:8Having eyes, don’t you see? Having ears, don’t you hear? Don’t you remember? See also: Acts 28:26-27Matthew 13:14-15Jeremiah 5:21When I broke the five loaves among the five thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?” They told him, “Twelve.” See also: Luke 9:12-17Matthew 14:17-21Mark 6:38-44“When the seven loaves fed the four thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?” They told him, “Seven.” See also: Matthew 15:34-38Mark 8:1-9He asked them, “Don’t you understand yet?” See also: Mark 6:52Psalms 94:81 Corinthians 6:5He came to Bethsaida. They brought a blind man to him and begged him to touch him. See also: Matthew 11:21Luke 10:13Mark 6:45He took hold of the blind man by the hand, and brought him out of the village. When he had spat on his eyes, and laid his hands on him, he asked him if he saw anything. See also: Mark 7:33John 9:6-7Acts 9:8He looked up, and said, “I see men, but I see them like walking trees.” See also: Isaiah 29:181 Corinthians 13:9-12Isaiah 32:3Then again he laid his hands on his eyes. He looked intently, and was restored, and saw everyone clearly. See also: Proverbs 4:18Philippians 1:61 Peter 2:9He sent him away to his house, saying, “Don’t enter into the village, nor tell anyone in the village.” See also: Matthew 8:4Matthew 9:30Matthew 12:16Jesus went out, with his disciples, into the villages of Caesarea Philippi. On the way he asked his disciples, “Who do men say that I am?” See also: Matthew 16:13-20Luke 9:18-20They told him, “John the Baptizer, and others say Elijah, but others, one of the prophets.” See also: John 1:21Matthew 14:2Malachi 4:5He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered, “You are the Christ.” See also: 1 John 4:15Matthew 16:15-161 John 5:1He commanded them that they should tell no one about him. See also: Matthew 16:20Luke 9:21Mark 9:9He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again. See also: Mark 10:33-34John 2:19Luke 24:26He spoke to them openly. Peter took him and began to rebuke him. See also: Matthew 16:22John 16:25John 16:29But he, turning around and seeing his disciples, rebuked Peter, and said, “Get behind me, Satan! For you have in mind not the things of God, but the things of men.” See also: Matthew 4:10Philippians 3:191 John 2:15He called the multitude to himself with his disciples and said to them, “Whoever wants to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. See also: Matthew 10:38Luke 14:26-27John 10:27For whoever wants to save his life will lose it; and whoever will lose his life for my sake and the sake of the Good News will save it. See also: 2 Timothy 2:11-131 Corinthians 9:23Matthew 16:25For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his life? See also: Matthew 16:26Psalms 49:17Luke 9:25For what will a man give in exchange for his life? See also: Psalms 49:7-81 Peter 1:18-19For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man also will be ashamed of him when he comes in his Father’s glory with the holy angels.” See also: Luke 12:8-9Romans 1:161 John 2:23
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)11 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Mark 8:8
Ver. 8. After the multitude had eaten and were filled, they did not take the remains; but these the disciples collected, as in the former miracle of the multiplication of the loaves. By this circumstance we are taught to be content with what is sufficient, and to seek no unnecessary supplies. We may likewise learn from this stupendous miracle the providence of God and his goodness, who sends us not away fasting, but wishes all to be nourished and enriched with his grace. Theoph. — Thus does our Lord verify in his works what he has promised in his instructions; that if we will seek in the first instance the kingdom of God and his justice, that all necessary things shall be added unto us. By the gathering up of the fragments that remained, he not only made the miracle more striking to the multitude and to the apostles, but has also left us a practical lesson, how, in the midst of plenty, which proceeds from the munificence of heaven, we must suffer no waste. A.
↑ 8Mark 8:9
Ver. 9. S. Mat. (xv. 38.) adds, without counting either the women or the children.
↑ 9Mark 8:10
Ver. 10. Dalmanutha. S. Mat. (xv. 39.) has, to the borders of Magedan; in Greek, Magdala, or Magedan. These were two towns beyond the sea of Galilee, situated near to each other; it is of little consequence which of these names the Evangelists mention; perhaps our Saviour visited both. Tir. — The major part of commentators, if we can believe the Bible of Vence, take Magedan, or Magdala, to be the the town of that name situated to the east of the lake of Tiberias, in the vicinity of Gerasa, and Dalmanutha to be the name of that part of the country in which these two towns were situated. V. — Polus in his Synopsis Criticorum, (vol. iv. p. 410.) gives three explanations for the discrepance of the names in SS. Matthew and Mark: 1. Idem locus erat binominis, the same place might have two names. 2. Propiqua erant loca, the places were near. 3. Alterum erat regio, alterum vicus, the one was the name of the territory, the other of the town or village; and concludes with asserting from Jewish authorities, that it was the same territory in which the two villages Magedan and Dalmanutha were situated; so that it might be known by either name, as we find the territory of Gadara and of Gergesæ is one and the same.
Polus.
↑ 10Mark 8:11
Ver. 11. Jesus Christ did not consent to the petition they made him, because there will be another time for signs and wonders, viz. his second coming, when the powers of heaven shall be moved, and the moon refuse her light.
This his first coming is not to terrify man, but to instruct and store his mind with lessons of humility, and every other virtue. Theophy.
↑ 11Mark 8:12
Ver. 12. Jesus Christ fetches a deep sigh on account of their obduracy, and says; why do these ask for a miracle to confirm their belief, when they resist the authority of so many miracles, which are daily performed under their eyes?
V. — A sign shall not be given. But by a Hebrew form of speech, if divers times is put for a negative. Wi.
↑ 12Mark 8:15
Ver. 15. Of the leaven of Herod. In S. Matt. c. xvi. v. 6, we read of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees: we may conclude that Christ named all of them.
Wi.
↑ 15Mark 8:23
Ver. 23. It may be asked, why our Lord led the man from the multitude before he cured him? — It may be answered, that he did it not to seem to perform his prodigies through vain glory; and thence to teach us to shun the empty praises of men: 2dly, to facilitate recollection, and to give himself to prayer, before he cured the blind man; and lastly, he went out of the city because the inhabitants of Bethsaida had already rendered themselves unworthy of the miracles of Christ. For among them our Saviour had wrought many miracles, yet they would not believe. S. Matt. xi. 21. Tir. Theophy. — Dionysius says, that Jesus led him from the multitude to shew that if a sinner, figured by the blind man, wishes to be converted from his evil ways, he must first leave all immediate occasions and inducements to sin. D. Diony.
↑ 23Mark 8:24
Ver. 24. Men[1] as trees walking. In the Latin text, walking may agree either with men, or with trees, but the Greek shews that walking must be referred to men. Perhaps Christ restored sight in this manner to the man by degrees, to make him more sensible of the benefit; or to teach us how difficult is a sinner's conversion; of which this was a figure. Wi.
↑ 24Mark 8:25
Ver. 25. Our Saviour made use of exterior signs in the performance of his miracles to command attention, and to signify the inward effects of the favours grants: these the Catholic Church, after the example of her Founder and Model, also uses in the celebration of her sacraments, and for the same purposes. Nor ought any supercilious and superficial reasoner to undervalue and contemn the corporal and external application of holy things, under the hollow plea, that we are exclusively to attend to the spirit and faith.
↑ 25Mark 8:28
Ver. 28. As one of the prophets. In the Greek it is, one of the prophets.
↑ 28Mark 8:31
Ver. 31. After our Redeemer had heard the confession of his first apostle, who spoke in the name of all, as the head, he opens out to them the grand mystery of his passion.
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[1] V. 24. Video homines velut arbores ambulantes, blepo tous anthropous os dendra peripatountas.
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↑ 31License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses