Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Mark 8:21
And he said unto them, How is it that ye do not understand?
21. ye do not understand ] They seem to have thought that He was warning them against buying leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
21. How is it that ye do notunderstand?“do not understand that the warning I gave youcould not have been prompted by any such petty consideration as thewant of loaves in your scrip.” Profuse as were our Lord’smiracles, we see from this that they were not wrought at random, butthat He carefully noted their minutest details, and desired that thisshould be done by those who witnessed, as doubtless by all who readthe record of them. Even the different kind of baskets used at thetwo miraculous feedings, so carefully noted in the two narratives,are here also referred to; the one smaller, of which there weretwelve, the other much larger, of which there were seven.
Blind Man at Bethsaida Restoredto Sight (Mr 8:22-26).
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Do ye not yet understand? ( ;). After all this rebuke and explanation. The greatest of all teachers had the greatest of all classes, but he struck a snag here. Mt 16:12 gives the result: “Then they understood how that he bade them not beware of the loaves of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.” They had once said that they understood the parables of Jesus (Mt 13:51). But that was a long time ago. The teacher must have patience if his pupils are to understand.
Fuente: Robertson’s Word Pictures in the New Testament
1) ”And He said unto them,” (kai elegen autois) ”And He then said to them,” repeatedly, over and over is indicated by the imperfect tense, in a tone of disappointment at their slow learning.
2) ”How is it that ye do not understand?” (oupo sumete) ”How is it then that you do not realize or comprehend?” about my warning against the leaven of the Pharisees and the Herodians? Mar 8:11; Mar 8:15; Mat 16:11-12; Luk 12:1. All the signs Jesus had performed, in way of prophetic fulfillments, from His virgin birth to this hour, had not been understood or accepted by the Pharisees, Sadducees and Herodians. They yet asked for a sign, Mat 16:1-4, even beyond the miracles He had performed, as they held on to their traditions and ceremonies – – their leaven, Mar 16:11. Now, even the twelve, seemed dull in their understanding.
Fuente: Garner-Howes Baptist Commentary
21 And he said unto them, How is it that ye do not understand?
Ver. 21. How is it that ye do not understand? ] It is very ill taken when we improve not experiments. Of all things God can least abide to be forgotten.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
How is it. P Figure of speech Erotesis (App-6). See notes on verses: Mar 8:12, Mar 8:17.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
How: Mar 8:12, Mar 8:17, Mar 6:52, Mar 9:19, Psa 94:8, Mat 16:11, Mat 16:12, Joh 14:9, 1Co 6:5, 1Co 15:34
Reciprocal: Heb 5:11 – dull
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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Jesus rebuked them with a question as to their understanding. Mat 16:12 states that the disciples then did understand what Jesus meant by leaven.
Fuente: Combined Bible Commentary
Mar 8:21. Do ye not yet understand, i.e., after these miracles. Mark stops with this brief question, because in writing for Gentile readers his main design was to show the condition of the Twelve, rather than to warn against Jewish notions.
Fuente: A Popular Commentary on the New Testament
8:21 And he said unto them, {c} How is it that ye do not understand?
(c) How does it come to pass that you do not understand these things which are so plain and evident.