Mar 6:32-44, Luk 9:10-17 | Barnes | STEP | Verses 32-44. and Verse 32. By ship . By a boat, a small vessel. Privately . Without making their plan known. They intended to go privately. It appears, however, that their intention became known, and multitudes followed them.

Mark 6:32-44

Verse 32. By ship. By a boat, a small vessel.

Privately. Without making their plan known. They intended to go privately. It appears, however, that their intention became known, and multitudes followed them. Verse 33. Afoot thither. On foot to the place where they saw them going.

Out of all cities. All cities or large towns in the neighbourhood. Verse 34. Much people--as sheep, etc. They had no one to teach them, and guide them. The priests and scribes were proud, corrupt, and despised the common people and neglected them.

(r) "because they were" 1Kgs 22:17 Verse 35. The time is far passed. The day is almost gone. It is drawing near night.

(s) "And when the day" Mt 14:15, Lk 9:12, Jn 6:5 Verse 37. Two hundred pennyworth of bread. About 27 dollars, [or �6 sterling.] As the disciples had a common purse in which they carried their little property, consisting of the donations of their friends, and money to be given to the poor, (compare Jn 12:6; Mt 26:8,9; Lk 8:30 it is not improbable that they had, at this time, about this sum in their possession. Philip--for it was he who asked the question, (Jn 6:7)--asked, with a mixture of wonder and agitation, whether they should take all their little property, and spend it on a single meal? And even if we should, said he, it would not be sufficient to satisfy such a multitude. It was implied in this, that in his view they could not provide for them if they wished to, and that it would be better to send them away than to attempt it.

(t) "Shall we go" Nu 11:13,22, 2Kgs 4:43 (1) "two hundred" Mt 18:28 Verse 39.

(u) "commanded" Mt 15:35, Mk 8:6 Verse 40. In ranks. Literally, in the form of square beds in a garden. By square, regularly formed companies.

By hundreds, and by fifties. Some companies had a hundred in, and some fifty. We need not suppose that these were exactly formed, or arranged; but that this was about the number. The expression indicates a multitude. There were so many, that they sat down, by hundreds and by fifties, in separate companies, on the green grass. Verse 41.

(v) "and blessed" 1Sam 9:13, Mt 26:26, Lk 24:30 Verse 42.

(w) "And they did" De 8:3 Verse 43. Twelve baskets. Baskets belonging to the disciples, in which they carried their provisions, or, perhaps, belonging to some of the multitude.

Fragments. Broken pieces of the bread that remained.

Luke 9:10-17

Verses 10-17. Mt 14:13, also Mt 14:14-21.

Verse 10. Verse 11.

(f) "when they knew it" Rom 10:14,17 (g) "he received them" Jn 6:37 (h) "kingdom of God" Acts 28:31 Verse 12.

(k) "And when the day" Mt 14:15 (l) "desert place" Ps 78:19,20, Eze 34:25, Hos 13:5 Verse 14.

(m) "Make them sit down" 1Cor 14:40 Verse 17.

(n) "were all filled" Ps 107:9