Marco 8:21

21 Ed essi risposero: Sette. E diceva loro: Non capite ancora?

Marco 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.

Marco 8:21 In-Context

19 Quand’io spezzai i cinque pani per i cinquemila, quante ceste piene di pezzi levaste? Essi dissero: Dodici.

20 E quando spezzai i sette pani per i quattromila, quanti panieri pieni levaste?

21 Ed essi risposero: Sette. E diceva loro: Non capite ancora?

22 E vennero in Betsaida; e gli fu menato un cieco, e lo pregarono che lo toccasse.

23 Ed egli, preso il cieco per la mano, lo condusse fuor dal villaggio; e sputatogli negli occhi e impostegli le mani, gli domandò: