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Mar_8:11-13. See on Mat_16:1-4, who narrates more fully out of the collection of Logia, and from the tradition adds the Sadducees.
ἐξῆλθον ] namely, from their dwellings in the district there. A trait of graphic circumstantiality. Lange imports the idea: as spies out of an ambush. But it is not easy to see why Mar_8:11 should fitly attach itself, not to the history of the miraculous feeding (which could not but serve to enhance the sensation produced by Jesus), but to Mar_7:37 (Holtzmann). Between Dalmanutha and the place of the feeding there lay in fact only the lake.
ἤρξαντο συζ . αὐτῷ ] How they made the beginning of disputing with Him, is told by ζητοῦντες κ . τ . λ .: so that they asked, etc.
Mar_8:12. ἀναστενάξας ] after that He had heaved a sigh (comp. Mar_7:34), namely, at the hardened unbelief of those men.[111] A picturesque feature here peculiar to Mark. Comp. Mar_7:34.
ΤΊ ] why—in painful certainty of the want of result, which would be associated with the granting of their request. “Tota hujus orationis indoles intelligitur ex pronuntiatione,” Beza.
εἰ δοθήσεται ] a thoroughly Hebraistic expression of asseveration (never shall, etc.), by the well-known suppression of the apodosis. See Köster, Erläut. p. 104 ff.; Winer, p. 444 [E. T. 627]. According to Mark, therefore (who has not the significant saying as to the sign of Jonas adopted by Matthew from the collection of Logia already at Mar_10:39 ff., and in this case at Mar_16:4), a σημεῖον is altogether refused to this generation of Pharisees.[112] For them—these hardened ones, for whom the signs already given did not suffice—none should be given; the σημεῖα , which Jesus gave everywhere, were in fact sufficient even for their conversion, if they had only been willing to attend to and profit by them.
ΠΆΛΙΝ ἘΜΒΆς ] without ΕἸς ΤῸ ΠΛΟῖΟΝ (see the critical remarks), which is, however, by means of ΠΆΛΙΝ obvious from Mar_8:10. Comp. Xen. Cyrop. v. 7. 7 : ὥστε ἐμβαίνειν , ὁπόταν Νότος πνέῃ , Dem. 29. 26, and many other places in the classical writers.
ΕἸς ΤῸ ΠΈΡΑΝ ] to the eastern side of the lake (comp. Mar_8:10). Holtzmann is wrong in saying that Jesus here passes over for the second time to the western side; see on Mar_8:22.
[111] This is all that is shown by the following painful question. Lange arbitrarily holds that Jesus sighed on account of the commencement of His separation from the dominant popular party; that there was, at the same time, a forbearing reservation of His judicial power, and so forth.
[112] By passing over the sign of Jonas, Mark has effaced the point of the answer, which Matthew and Luke have furnished.