John Gill's Exposition on Mark 8:1

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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In those days, etc..] The Ethiopic version reads, on that day; as if it was on the same day that the deaf man was healed; and so it might be; and on the third day from Christ's coming into those parts; and so is very properly expressed, “in those days”; (see <410731>Mark 7:31), compared with the following verse: the multitude being very great: for the number of men that ate, when the following miracle was wrought, were about four thousand; (see <410809>Mark 8:9). The Vulgate Latin, Arabic, and Ethiopic versions add, “again”; referring to the former miracle of the five thousand, who were fed with five loaves, and two fishes, (<410644>Mark 6:44). And having nothing to eat; what they might have brought with them being expended, and they in a desert, where nothing was to be had, nor bought for money: Jesus called his disciples to him, and saith unto them; (see Gill on “<401532>Matthew 15:32”).

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