The Pulpit Commentary — Mark — Volume 1 — Section 333

EXPOSITION. CHAPTER VIII. the context. In the original Greek con- etrnction the word iJx>..os, in the singular, Vers. 1, 2.-The opening words of the first is disintegrated in the next clause by e. verse seem to imply tho.t our Lord remained passage into the plural (reed l'-h lxl"m"" .,./ for some time on this, the north-east, side of ,pc!:you<n). This is properly mo.rked in the the Sea of Galilee. The multitude being Revised Version by the words, a great very great. The wo:-1 here rendered "very multitude, and they had nothing to eat. Our gree.t " is ra.µ.r&J1.Ju11,, a word not to be found Lord has compassion on them. He desires e.nywhere else in the New Te~t.ament. But not only to heal the sick, but to feed the according to the best e.uthontiea, the true hungry. We may here notice the burning reading is ra.ll.111 r&AA011; so that the words zeal of the multitude. They were so intent would run, u,hen there u,a, again a great upon hearing Christ, that they forgot to multitude. It haB been supposed with some provide themselves with the necessaries of reason that, B8 e.n old ecclesiastical Lection life. They continued with him for three began with this che.pter, this may have lod days and had nothing to eat. Whe.tever to the substitution of "aJl1r&AA011 for """''" smo.ll supplies they might have brought with ..-oMou, in order to make the Lection more them at first were now exhe.usted; e.nd still eomplete in itielf, avoiding this reference to they rmne.ined, " esteeming hie words to be oH, vm, 1-38.] THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. MARK.