Mar 6 | TSK | STEP | Christ is contemned of his countrymen. He gives the twelve power over unclean spirits. Divers opinions of Christ. John the Baptist is imprisoned, beheaded, and buried. The apostles return from preaching. The miracle of five loaves and two fishes. Christ walks on the sea; and heals all that touch him. and came.

save.Matthew says that they were to take "neither two coats, neither shoes, nor yet staves;" but this precept plainly means, "Go just as you are; take no other coat, shoes, or staff than what you already have."

money."The word signifieth a piece of brass money in value something less than a farthing. Mt 10:9: but here it is taken in general for money."

Lu 9:3

be shod.

Eph 6:15

sandals.The sandal consisted only of a sole, fastened about the foot and ankle with straps.

Ac 12:8

Mt 10:11-13; Lu 9:4; 10:7,8; Ac 16:15; 17:5-7

whosoever.

Ne 5:13; Mt 10:14; Lu 9:5; 10:10,11; Ac 13:50,51; 18:6

It shall.

Eze 16:48-51; Mt 10:15; 11:20-24; Lu 10:12-15; Joh 15:22-24

Heb 6:4-8; 10:26-31; 2Pe 2:6; Jude 1:7

and. Gr. or. in the day.

Mt 12:36; Ro 2:5,16; 2Pe 2:9; 3:7; 1Jo 4:17

preached.

1:3,15; Eze 18:30; Mt 3:2,8; 4:17; 9:13; 11:20; Lu 11:32; 13:3,5

Lu 15:7,10; 24:47; Ac 2:38; 3:19; 11:18; 20:21; 26:20; 2Co 7:9,10

2Ti 2:25,26

cast.

7; Lu 10:17

anointed.

Jas 5:14,15

king Herod.

22,26,27; Mt 14:1,2; Lu 3:1; 9:7-9; 13:31; 23:7-12

his name.

1:28,45; 2Ch 26:8,15; Mt 9:31; 1Th 1:8

it is Elias.

8:28; 9:12,13; 15:35,36; Mal 4:5

Elijah.

Mt 16:14; 17:10,11; Lu 1:17; 9:8,19; Joh 1:21,25

a prophet.

Mt 21:11; Lu 7:16,39; Joh 6:14; 7:40; 9:17; Ac 3:22,23

It is.

Ge 40:10,11; Ps 53:5; Mt 14:2; 27:4; Lu 9:9; Re 11:10-13

A.M. 4032. A.D. 28. Herod.

Mt 4:12; 11:2; 14:3-12; Lu 3:19,20

Philip's.

Lu 3:1

It is.

Le 18:16; 20:21; 1Ki 22:14; Eze 3:18,19; Mt 14:3,4; Ac 20:26,27

Ac 24:24-26

Herodias.

Ge 39:17-20; 1Ki 21:20

a quarrel. or, an inward grudge.

Ec 7:9; Eph 4:26,27

feared.

11:18; Ex 11:3; 1Ki 21:20; 2Ki 3:12,13; 6:21; 13:14; 2Ch 24:2,15-22

2Ch 26:5; Eze 2:5-7; Da 4:18,27; 5:17; Mt 14:5; 21:26

observed him. or, kept him, or saved him. and heard.

4:16; Ps 106:12,13; Eze 33:32; Joh 5:35

when.

Ge 27:41; 2Sa 13:23-29; Es 3:7; Ps 37:12,13; Ac 12:2-4

his birthday.

Ge 40:20; Es 1:3-7; 2:18; Pr 31:4,5; Da 5:1-4; Ho 7:5; 1Pe 4:3

Re 11:10

Es 1:10-12; Isa 3:16-26; Da 5:2; Mt 14:6

he.

1Sa 28:10; 2Ki 6:31; Mt 5:34-37; 14:7

Whatsoever.

Es 5:3,6; 7:2; Pr 6:2; Mt 4:9

said.

Ge 27:8-11; 2Ch 22:3,4; Eze 19:2,3; Mt 14:8

The head.

Job 31:31; Ps 27:2; 37:12,14; Pr 27:3,4; Ac 23:12,13

with haste.

Pr 1:16; Ro 3:15

a charger.

Nu 7:13,19-89

Mt 14:9; 27:3-5,24,25

the king.

Mt 14:10,11

an executioner. or, one of his guard.[Spekoulator ,] in Latin, speculator, from speculor, to look about, spy, properly denotes a sentinel; and as these sentinels kept guard at the palaces of kings, and the residences of Roman governors, so they were employed in other offices besides guarding, and usually performed that of executioners. As, however, we learn from Josephus, that Herod was at this very time engaged in war with Aretas, king of Arabia, in consequence of Herod's having divorced his daughter in order to marry Herodias, his brother Philip's wife; and as this event occurred at an entertainment given at the castle of Machaerus, while his army was on its march against his father-in-law; we are furnished with an additional reason why a speculator, or sentinel, should have been employed as an executioner; and are thus enabled to discover such a latent and undesigned coincidence as clearly evinces the truth of the evangelical narrative.

they came.

1Ki 13:29,30; 2Ch 24:16; Mt 14:12; 27:57-60; Ac 8:2

the apostles.

7-13; Lu 9:10; 10:17

both.

Ac 1:1; 20:18-21; 1Ti 4:12-16; Tit 2:6,7; 1Pe 5:2,3

come.

1:45; 3:7,20; Mt 14:13; Joh 6:1

Mt 14:13

54,55; Mt 15:29-31; Joh 6:2; Jas 1:19

saw.

Mt 14:14; 15:32; Lu 9:11; Ro 15:2,3; Heb 2:17; 4:15

because.

Nu 27:17; 1Ki 22:17; 2Ch 18:16; Jer 50:6; Zec 10:2; Mt 9:36

and he.

Isa 61:1-3

Mt 14:15-21; Lu 9:12-17; Joh 6:5-15

3:21; 5:31; Mt 15:23; 16:22

give.

8:2,3; 2Ki 4:42-44; Mt 14:16; 15:32; Lu 9:13; Joh 6:4-10

Shall.

Nu 11:13,21-23; 2Ki 7:2; Mt 15:33; Joh 6:7

penny-worth."The Roman penny is sevenpence halfpenny; as Mt 18:28, marg."

8:5; Mt 14:17,18; 15:34; Lu 9:13; Joh 6:9

1Ki 10:5; Es 1:5,6; Mt 15:35; 1Co 14:33,40

by hundreds.It is generally supposed that they were so arranged as to be a hundred in rank, or depth, and fifty in front, or file; which would make the number just five thousand, and will reconcile this account with Luke's, who only speaks of their sitting down by fifties.

Lu 9:14,15

looked.

7:34; Mt 14:19; Lu 9:16; Joh 11:41; 17:1

blessed.

8:6,7; 14:22; De 8:10; 1Sa 9:13; Mt 15:36; 26:26; Lu 24:30

Joh 6:11,23; Ac 27:35; Ro 14:6; 1Co 10:31; Col 3:17; 1Ti 4:4,5

8:8,9; De 8:3; 2Ki 4:42-44; Ps 145:15,16; Mt 14:20,21; 15:37,38

Lu 9:17; Joh 6:12

8:19,20

straightway.

Mt 14:22-33; Joh 6:15-17,18-21

unto Bethsaida. or, over against Bethsaida.Bethsaida, according to Josephus, was situated on the sea of Gennesaret, in the lower Gaulonitis, (consequently on the east of the lake, as Pliny states,) and at the beginning of the mountainous country; and it was raised from a village to the honour of a city by Philip, and called Julias in honour of the emperor's daughter. Some learned men, however, are of opinion that the Bethsaida mentioned in the gospels was a different place; and that it was situated on the western shore of the sea of Tiberias, in Galilee, near Chorazin and Capernaum, with which it is associated, (Mt 11:21, 23. Joh 12:21;) and Bishop Pococke mentions the ruins of a town or large village in the plain of Huttin, about two miles west of the lake, still bearing the name of Baitsida, which he thinks occupies its site.

8:22; Lu 10:13

1:35; Mt 6:6; 14:23; Lu 6:12; 1Pe 2:21

Mt 14:23; Joh 6:16,17

he saw.

Isa 54:11; Joh 1:13; Mt 14:24

the fourth.

Ex 14:24; 1Sa 11:11; Lu 12:38

he cometh.

Job 9:8; Ps 93:4; 104:3

would.

Ge 19:2; 32:26; Lu 24:28

they saw.