Mark 8 ~ Discussing the fact

Mark 8

In those days, when again a great crowd had gathered, and they had nothing to eat, he called his disciples to him and said to them, “I have compassion on the crowd, because they have been with me now three days and have nothing to eat. And if I send them away hungry to their homes, they will faint on the way. And some of them have come from far away.”


And his disciples answered him, “How can one feed these people with bread here in this desolate place?”

And he asked them, “How many loaves do you have?”

They said, “Seven.”

And he directed the crowd to sit down on the ground. And he took the seven loaves, and having given thanks, he broke them and gave them to his disciples to set before the people; and they set them before the crowd. And they had a few small fish.

And having blessed them, he said that these also should be set before them. And they ate and were satisfied. And they took up the broken pieces left over, seven baskets full. And there were about four thousand people. And he sent them away. 

And immediately he got into the boat with his disciples and went to the district of Dalmanutha.



The Pharisees came and began to argue with him, seeking from him a sign from heaven to test him. And he sighed deeply in his spirit and said, “Why does this generation seek a sign? Truly, I say to you, no sign will be given to this generation.” 

And he left them, got into the boat again, and went to the other side.

Now they had forgotten to bring bread, and they had only one loaf with them in the boat. And he cautioned them, saying, “Watch out; beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.” And they began discussing with one another the fact that they had no bread. And Jesus, aware of this, said to them, “Why are you discussing the fact that you have no bread? Do you not yet perceive or understand? Are your hearts hardened? Having eyes do you not see, and having ears do you not hear? And do you not remember? When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?” 

They said to him, “Twelve.” 

“And the seven for the four thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?” 

And they said to him, “Seven.” 

And he said to them, “Do you not yet understand?”

And they came to Bethsaida. And some people brought to him a blind man and begged him to touch him. And he took the blind man by the hand and led him out of the village, and when he had spit on his eyes and laid his hands on him, he asked him, “Do you see anything?”

 And he looked up and said, “I see people, but they look like trees, walking.” 

Then Jesus laid his hands on his eyes again; and he opened his eyes, his sight was restored, and he saw everything clearly. And he sent him to his home, saying, “Do not even enter the village.”

And Jesus went on with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi. And on the way he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that I am?” And they told him, “John the Baptist; and others say, Elijah; and others, one of the prophets.” And he asked them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered him, “You are the Christ.” And he strictly charged them to tell no one about him.

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

And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. But turning and seeing his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind me, Satan! For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man.”

And calling the crowd to him with his disciples, he said to them, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's will save it. For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul? For what can a man give in return for his soul?

 For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him will the Son of Man also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”

Jesus is so full of abundance, that if we do not fully picture his first sermon in Capernaum...

So Jesus is displaying the Abundance of God.
And of course Jesus has displayed this for millenniums and we never took the time to picture what Jesus really did.

Maybe because when you fully display all of Jesus - the overwhelming abundance is difficult to take the truth of Jesus in. We rarely focus on the Words of Scripture "He healed them all." "The Sea was still and quiet at His Word."

Jesus fully realized how unabundant life could be. And a lot of Jesus is Jesus coping with the difference between God and man. Jesus fully tells the crowd - you are here for the bread.




How did the life of Jesus go? Well really - GOD did very well with the life of Jesus. God never thought people were like trees walking. From Genesis until today. Father God took the time once in all of the millenniums to say how life is.  "God saw this is good."



Abba Father,

With all the saints, and all faithful in Christ Jesus: we lift up prayers and feel Your Grace to us and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

With Heaven, we pray Holy, Holy, Holy. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as You chose us in Jesus before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before You.

In love You predestined us for adoption to You as children through Jesus Christ,
according to the purpose of Your will,
to the praise of Your glorious grace,
with which You have blessed us in the Beloved.

In Jesus we have redemption through His blood,
the forgiveness of our trespasses,
according to the riches of Your grace,
which Jesus lavished upon us,
in all wisdom and insight making known to us the mystery of Your will,
according to Your purpose,
which You set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in You, things in heaven and things on earth.

In Jesus we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of Jesus who works all things according to the counsel of Your will, so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of Your glory.

In Jesus we also, when we heard the word of truth, the gospel of our salvation, and believed in Jesus, we were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of Your glory.

For this reason, because in our faith in the Lord Jesus and our love toward all the saints, we do not cease to give thanks to You, remembering Jesus in our prayers, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give us the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of Jesus, having the eyes of our hearts enlightened, that we may know what is the hope to which You have called us, what are the riches of Your glorious inheritance in the saints, and what is the immeasurable greatness of Your power toward us who believe, according to the working of Your great might worked in Christ when You raised Jesus from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come. And You put all things under Jesus' feet and gave Jesus as head over all things to the church, which is Your body, the fullness of Jesus who fills all in all.

Alleluia for ourselves, Jesus in those we Love, Jesus in those yet unborn, Jesus in the people we pray for. Jesus when we need His Help so much. Jesus when we are quiet and rejoice. Jesus always. Jesus in our cities, jobs, and Nation. Jesus in our culture. Jesus in our heart. Jesus in our thoughts. Jesus is God. Amen.

 ♔ Lord Jesus Saves †