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Mark 6:32-34

Mark 6:32-34

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

Christ's sympathy for men.

I. How IT WAS CALLED FORTH.

1. The physical exhaustion and hunger of the people.

2. Their restlessness.

3. Their inarticulate longing for some higher truth and life.

II. THE CHARACTER IT ASSUMED. Shepherdly anxiety and care.

1. An intense compassion and solicitude.

2. A deep religious sense of the Divine ideal from which they had departed. The spirit, the very words of prophecy, occur to him in the connection (; ).

3. A practical undertaking of their care.

III. HOW IT EXPRESSED ITSELF. He taught them many things. By word and act he strove to lift their hearts to God, and to suggest the ineffable mysteries of his kingdom. The miracle that followed.—M.

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