Mark 8:21

21 Then Jesus said to them, "Don't you understand yet?"

Mark 8:21 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 8:21

And he said unto them
Since this was the case, and they so well remembered the miracles he had wrought, and the circumstances of them:

how is it that ye do not understand?
my words concerning the leaven of the Pharisees, of the Sadducees, and of Herod, as to imagine I spoke of bread, taken in a literal sense; or that I concerned myself about the scantiness of your provisions, when you, might have learnt from my late miracles, how able I am to support you, if you had not so much as one loaf with you: wherefore it argues great want both of understanding and faith, and shows great stupidity, ignorance, and unbelief, to give such a sense of my words, and to be anxiously concerned on the score of your provisions.

Mark 8:21 In-Context

19 I divided five loaves of bread for the five thousand? How many baskets did you fill with leftover pieces of food?" They answered, "Twelve."
20 "And when I divided seven loaves of bread for the four thousand, how many baskets did you fill with leftover pieces of food?" They answered, "Seven."
21 Then Jesus said to them, "Don't you understand yet?"
22 Jesus and his followers came to Bethsaida. There some people brought a blind man to Jesus and begged him to touch the man.
23 So Jesus took the blind man's hand and led him out of the village. Then he spit on the man's eyes and put his hands on the man and asked, "Can you see now?"
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