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 greatness of his power; which was as much an act
of omnipotence, as either his walking upon the water, or causing
the wind to cease, or more so.
For their heart was hardened;
or "blinded"; not by sin, or against Christ, much less in a
judicial way: but there was a great deal of dulness and
stupidity, and want of attention in them. The glory of Christ,
which he manifested, and showed forth in his miracles, was not so
clearly and fully discerned, attended to, and acknowledged by
them, at it might reasonably be thought it would; for
notwithstanding these miracles, which they daily saw, they stood
in need of divine illuminations, that the darkness of their minds
being removed, they might behold the glory of Christ, as the
glory of the only begotten of the Father.