Now the disciples had forgotten to take bread, neither had they in the ship with them more than one loaf.
The setting is in the boat just after the feeding of the four thousand, when the disciples had forgotten to bring bread and had only one loaf with them in the ship. Their forgetfulness was a failure to trust Christ's power to provide, even though they had already watched Him multiply food. Prejudice against the Gentile crowd had also kept them from offering what little they had.
Their minds were fixed on the nearer earthly outlook of poverty, humiliation, and suffering, and they were unable to comprehend Christ as He pointed beyond the present to His coming in glory. That coming would not be with earthly splendor but with the glory of God and the heavenly hosts, to reward every person according to works. He gave the promise that some standing there would not die until they see the Son of man coming in His kingdom, yet that glory seemed far away. Because they clung to glowing expectations of an earthly Messianic kingdom and exaltation to the throne of David, the prospect of Christ living as a humble homeless wanderer to be despised, rejected, and put to death at Jerusalem oppressed them with sadness and harassed them with doubt, making them question why He would willingly face such cruel humiliation and leave them in greater darkness.
The setting is in the boat just after the feeding of the four thousand, when the disciples had forgotten to bring bread and had only one loaf with them in the ship. Their forgetfulness was a failure to trust Christ's power to provide, even though they had already watched Him multiply food. Prejudice against the Gentile crowd had also kept them from offering what little they had.
Their minds were fixed on the nearer earthly outlook of poverty, humiliation, and suffering, and they were unable to comprehend Christ as He pointed beyond the present to His coming in glory. That coming would not be with earthly splendor but with the glory of God and the heavenly hosts, to reward every person according to works. He gave the promise that some standing there would not die until they see the Son of man coming in His kingdom, yet that glory seemed far away. Because they clung to glowing expectations of an earthly Messianic kingdom and exaltation to the throne of David, the prospect of Christ living as a humble homeless wanderer to be despised, rejected, and put to death at Jerusalem oppressed them with sadness and harassed them with doubt, making them question why He would willingly face such cruel humiliation and leave them in greater darkness.