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Themes in Mark 8

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Themes in Mark 8

Mark 8:1 (show verse)

In those days the multitude being very great, and having nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples unto him, and saith unto them,

Mark 8:2 (show verse)

I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now been with me three days, and have nothing to eat:

Of Christ Compassion » Manifested for the » Poor
Jesus Christ » Miracles of » More than four-thousand people fed
Jesus Christ » History of » Feeds more than four-thousand people
Miracles » Of jesus, in chronological order » Feeds more than four-thousand people

Mark 8:3 (show verse)

And if I send them away fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the way: for divers of them came from far.

Mark 8:4 (show verse)

And his disciples answered him, From whence can a man satisfy these men with bread here in the wilderness?

Jesus Christ » Miracles of » More than four-thousand people fed
Jesus Christ » History of » Feeds more than four-thousand people
Miracles » Of jesus, in chronological order » Feeds more than four-thousand people
Power » Unrealized power » To provide for the multitude
Unrealized power » To provide for the multitude

Mark 8:5 (show verse)

And he asked them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven.

And he commanded the people to sit down on the ground: and he took the seven loaves, and gave thanks, and brake, and gave to his disciples to set before them; and they did set them before the people.

the Diet of the jews » Thanks given before
Entertainments » Began with thanksgiving
Food » Articles of » Thanks given before receiving
Jesus Christ » Miracles of » More than four-thousand people fed
Jesus Christ » History of » Feeds more than four-thousand people
Miracles » Of jesus, in chronological order » Feeds more than four-thousand people
Thankfulness » To God, instances of » Before receiving food, by jesus

Mark 8:7 (show verse)

And they had a few small fishes: and he blessed, and commanded to set them also before them.

Jesus Christ » Miracles of » More than four-thousand people fed
Jesus Christ » History of » Feeds more than four-thousand people
Miracles » Of jesus, in chronological order » Feeds more than four-thousand people
Thankfulness » To God, instances of » Before receiving food, by jesus

Mark 8:8 (show verse)

So they did eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken meat that was left seven baskets.

Christ » Miracles of » Feeding the four thousand
Jesus Christ » Miracles of » More than four-thousand people fed
Jesus Christ » History of » Feeds more than four-thousand people
Miracles » Of Christ » Feeding the four thousand
Miracles » Of jesus, in chronological order » Feeds more than four-thousand people

Mark 8:9 (show verse)

And they that had eaten were about four thousand: and he sent them away.

Mark 8:10 (show verse)

And straightway he entered into a ship with his disciples, and came into the parts of Dalmanutha.

Dalmanutha » A town on the west coast of the sea of galilee
Jesus Christ » History of » Refuses to give a sign to the pharisees (in the region of magdala)

Mark 8:11 (show verse)

And the Pharisees came forth, and began to question with him, seeking of him a sign from heaven, tempting him.

Christ » Slandered » Snares laid for
Curiosity » The levite looked with indifferent curiosity upon the man who was » Leads to the desire for signs
Jesus Christ » History of » Refuses to give a sign to the pharisees (in the region of magdala)
Reproof » Faithfulness in » Jesus, of the jews, when the pharisees and the sadducees came to him desiring a miraculous sign
Sign » A miracle to confirm faith
Snares laid » For Christ
Unbelief » Instances of » The jewish leaders

Mark 8:12 (show verse)

And he sighed deeply in his spirit, and saith, Why doth this generation seek after a sign? verily I say unto you, There shall no sign be given unto this generation.

Christ » Love to » Man of sorrows
Jesus Christ » History of » Refuses to give a sign to the pharisees (in the region of magdala)
Man » Knowledge limited strength limited » Man of sorrows
Reproof » Faithfulness in » Jesus, of the jews, when the pharisees and the sadducees came to him desiring a miraculous sign
Sign » A miracle to confirm faith
Solicitude » For the wayward
Man of sorrows » Christ, the man of sorrows
Sufferings of Christ » The man of sorrows
Unbelief » Instances of » The jewish leaders

Mark 8:13 (show verse)

And he left them, and entering into the ship again departed to the other side.

Jesus Christ » History of » Cautions his disciples against, the leaven (teachings) of hypocrisy (on lake galilee)

Mark 8:14 (show verse)

Now the disciples had forgotten to take bread, neither had they in the ship with them more than one loaf.

Bread » How prepared » Made into loaves
Jesus Christ » History of » Cautions his disciples against, the leaven (teachings) of hypocrisy (on lake galilee)

Mark 8:15 (show verse)

And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod.

Antipas » Ruled » Galilee » Slayed » John the baptist
Herods of the new testament » Antipas (herod the tetrarch) facts concerning » He ruled over galilee and perea for about thirty years seeking the title of king he was banished to gaul
Jesus Christ » History of » Cautions his disciples against, the leaven (teachings) of hypocrisy (on lake galilee)
Jews, the » Modern, divided into » Many sects and parties
Leaven (yeast) » Figurative » Of the hypocrisy of the pharisees

Mark 8:16 (show verse)

And they reasoned among themselves, saying, It is because we have no bread.

Jesus Christ » History of » Cautions his disciples against, the leaven (teachings) of hypocrisy (on lake galilee)

Mark 8:17 (show verse)

And when Jesus knew it, he saith unto them, Why reason ye, because ye have no bread? perceive ye not yet, neither understand? have ye your heart yet hardened?

Hardness (of heart) » Examples of
Jesus Christ » History of » Cautions his disciples against, the leaven (teachings) of hypocrisy (on lake galilee)
Reproof » On account of » Hardness (of heart)

Mark 8:18 (show verse)

Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and do ye not remember?

Fleeting impressions » Miracles soon forgotten
Jesus Christ » History of » Cautions his disciples against, the leaven (teachings) of hypocrisy (on lake galilee)

Mark 8:19 (show verse)

When I brake the five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? They say unto him, Twelve.

Fleeting impressions » Miracles soon forgotten
Jesus Christ » History of » Cautions his disciples against, the leaven (teachings) of hypocrisy (on lake galilee)

Mark 8:20 (show verse)

And when the seven among four thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? And they said, Seven.

Jesus Christ » History of » Cautions his disciples against, the leaven (teachings) of hypocrisy (on lake galilee)

Mark 8:21 (show verse)

And he said unto them, How is it that ye do not understand?

Jesus Christ » History of » Cautions his disciples against, the leaven (teachings) of hypocrisy (on lake galilee)

Mark 8:22 (show verse)

And he cometh to Bethsaida; and they bring a blind man unto him, and besought him to touch him.

Bethsaida » A city » A city of galilee » Jesus cures a blind man in
Blindness » Healed
Blindness » The miraculous healing of a man of bethsaida
Jesus Christ » History of » Heals a blind man (at bethsaida)
Miracles » Of jesus, in chronological order » Restores a blind man
the Miracles of Christ » The blind restored to sight

Mark 8:23 (show verse)

And he took the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the town; and when he had spit on his eyes, and put his hands upon him, he asked him if he saw ought.

Blindness » The miraculous healing of a man of bethsaida
Christ » Miracles of » Blind man
Jesus Christ » History of » Heals a blind man (at bethsaida)
Miracles » Of jesus, in chronological order » Restores a blind man
Miracles » Of Christ » Blind man
the Miracles of Christ » The blind restored to sight
Seclusion » Sought by those about to perform miracles » By Christ, in healing the blind man
Spitting » Jesus used spittle for healing

Mark 8:24 (show verse)

And he looked up, and said, I see men as trees, walking.

Blindness » The miraculous healing of a man of bethsaida
Jesus Christ » History of » Heals a blind man (at bethsaida)
Miracles » Of jesus, in chronological order » Restores a blind man
the Miracles of Christ » The blind restored to sight

Mark 8:25 (show verse)

After that he put his hands again upon his eyes, and made him look up: and he was restored, and saw every man clearly.

Mark 8:26 (show verse)

And he sent him away to his house, saying, Neither go into the town, nor tell it to any in the town.

Jesus Christ » History of » Heals a blind man (at bethsaida)
Miracles » Of jesus, in chronological order » Restores a blind man

Mark 8:27 (show verse)

And Jesus went out, and his disciples, into the towns of Caesarea Philippi: and by the way he asked his disciples, saying unto them, Whom do men say that I am?

Caesarea philippi » A city » North » Israel
Galilee » Modern towns of » Cesarea philippi

Mark 8:28 (show verse)

And they answered, John the Baptist: but some say, Elias; and others, One of the prophets.

Titles and names of the wicked » Sinful generation

Mark 8:29 (show verse)

And he saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? And Peter answereth and saith unto him, Thou art the Christ.

Jesus Christ » Miracles of » One blind man cured
Peter » Confesses jesus to be the messiah

Mark 8:30 (show verse)

And he charged them that they should tell no man of him.

Jesus Christ » Miracles of » One blind man cured
Prudence » Instances of » Of jesus
Silence » Of Christ » Silence encouraged, upon the disciples by Christ

Mark 8:31 (show verse)

And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.

Christ » His foreknowledge » Predicts his own sufferings
Christ » Sufferings of » Predicts his own sufferings
Denial » Denying yourself for jesus Christ
Following » Following the lord
Government » Mosaic » Constitutes, with priests and scribes, a court for the trial of both civil and ecclesiastical causes
Jesus Christ » Revelations by » Concerning » His death and resurrection
Jesus Christ » History of » Foretells his own death and resurrection (near caesarea philippi)
Jesus Christ » Miracles of » One blind man cured
Life » Who shall lose their life
Life » Who shall save their life
Losing and things lost » Who shall lose their life
Rejection » Jesus Christ being rejected
Salvation » Who shall save their life
Shame » Those that are ashamed of jesus Christ
Shame » Who jesus Christ will be ashamed of
Sufferings of Christ » Predicted by himself

Mark 8:32 (show verse)

And he spake that saying openly. And Peter took him, and began to rebuke him.

Denial » Denying yourself for jesus Christ
Following » Following the lord
Jesus Christ » History of » Foretells his own death and resurrection (near caesarea philippi)
Jesus Christ » Miracles of » One blind man cured
Life » Who shall lose their life
Life » Who shall save their life
Losing and things lost » Who shall lose their life
Peter » His presumption » In rebuking jesus
Presumption » Instances of » Peter
Salvation » Who shall save their life
Shame » Those that are ashamed of jesus Christ
Shame » Who jesus Christ will be ashamed of

Mark 8:33 (show verse)

But when he had turned about and looked on his disciples, he rebuked Peter, saying, Get thee behind me, Satan: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but the things that be of men.

Christ » Reproves » To peter
Denial » Denying yourself for jesus Christ
Following » Following the lord
Jesus Christ » History of » Foretells his own death and resurrection (near caesarea philippi)
Jesus Christ » Miracles of » One blind man cured
Life » Who shall lose their life
Life » Who shall save their life
Losing and things lost » Who shall lose their life
Peter » His presumption » In rebuking jesus
Reproof » Administered by Christ » To peter
Salvation » Who shall save their life
Shame » Those that are ashamed of jesus Christ
Shame » Who jesus Christ will be ashamed of
Words of Christ » Few, in times of trial instructive » Reproving

Mark 8:34 (show verse)

And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Bearing the cross
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Self-denial
Cross » Figurative
Denial » Denying yourself for jesus Christ
Following » Following the lord
Jesus Christ » History of » Foretells his own death and resurrection (near caesarea philippi)
Jesus Christ » Miracles of » One blind man cured
Life » Who shall lose their life
Life » Who shall save their life
Losing and things lost » Who shall lose their life
Salvation » Who shall save their life
Shame » Those that are ashamed of jesus Christ
Shame » Who jesus Christ will be ashamed of
Stoicism » Jesus requires self-denial and "crosses,"

Mark 8:35 (show verse)

For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it.

Confessing Christ » Persecution should not prevent us from
Denial » Denying yourself for jesus Christ
Gain through loss » A spiritual paradox
The gospel » Promises to sufferers
The gospel » Those who receive, should » Sacrifice life itself for
Jesus Christ » History of » Foretells his own death and resurrection (near caesarea philippi)
Jesus Christ » Miracles of » One blind man cured
Life » Who shall lose their life
Life » Who shall save their life
Losing and things lost » Who shall lose their life
Salvation » Who shall save their life
Shame » Those that are ashamed of jesus Christ
Shame » Who jesus Christ will be ashamed of
Stoicism » Jesus requires self-denial and "crosses,"

Mark 8:36 (show verse)

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

Jesus Christ » History of » Foretells his own death and resurrection (near caesarea philippi)
Jesus Christ » Miracles of » One blind man cured
Life » Who shall lose their life
Losing and things lost » Who shall lose their life
spiritual Loss » Causes of » Worldliness
Profit » What is not profitable
Profit and loss » Spiritual loss causes of » Worldliness
Shame » Those that are ashamed of jesus Christ
Shame » Who jesus Christ will be ashamed of

Mark 8:37 (show verse)

Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

Jesus Christ » History of » Foretells his own death and resurrection (near caesarea philippi)
Life » Sacredness of, an inference from what is taught in the law concerning murder » What can a man give in exchange for
Profit » What is not profitable
Shame » Those that are ashamed of jesus Christ
Shame » Who jesus Christ will be ashamed of

Mark 8:38 (show verse)

Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.

Angel (a spirit) » Functions of » Will be with Christ at his second coming
Angels » Shall attend Christ at his second coming
Angels » The angels accompanying Christ when he returns
Angels » Nature » Holy
Christ » Denial of » General references to
Coming of the lord jesus Christ » Who the lord will come with
Denial of Christ » General references to
Denial of Christ » In doctrine
Jesus Christ » History of » Foretells his own death and resurrection (near caesarea philippi)
Second coming of Christ » Rewards at, bestowed upon believers » Warnings to the wicked concerning
The second coming of Christ » The manner of » Accompanied by angels
Shame » Those that are ashamed of jesus Christ
Shame » Who jesus Christ will be ashamed of
Shame » Jesus ashamed of those who deny him
the future » Rewards at, bestowed upon believers » Warnings to the wicked concerning