SEV Biblia, Chapter 16:8
Y entendindolo Jess, les dijo: ¿Por qu pensis dentro de vosotros, hombres de poca fe, que no tomasteis pan?
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Matthew 16:8
Verse 8. When Jesus perceived, he said] autoiv, unto them, is wanting in BDKLMS, and twenty others; one of the Syriac, the Armenian, Ethiopia, Vulgate, and most of the Itala; also in Origen, Theophylact, and Lucifer Calaritanus. Mill approves of the omission, and Griesbach has left it out of the text. O ye of little faith] There are degrees in faith, as well as in the other graces of the Spirit. Little faith may be the seed of great faith, and therefore is not to be despised. But many who should be strong in faith have but a small measure of it, because they either give way to sin, or are not careful to improve what God has already given.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 8. Which when Jesus perceived , etc.] Without hearing any of their debates, but by his omniscience; for he knew the doubts and unbelief, and anxious solicitude of their minds, as well as their private reasonings one with another: he said unto them, O ye of little faith ; a phrase used upon a like occasion, when he would dissuade his disciples from an anxious distressing care about a livelihood, ( Matthew 6:30 See Gill Matthew 6:30): why reason ye among yourselves, because ye have brought no bread? blaming one another for your negligence and forgetfulness in this matter; distressing your minds, as if you should be famished and starved, because ye have not brought a quantity of bread, as you used to do with you.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 5-12 - Christ speaks of spiritual things under a similitude, and the disciple misunderstand him of carnal things. He took it ill that they shoul think him as thoughtful about bread as they were; that they should be so little acquainted with his way of preaching. Then understood the what he meant. Christ teaches by the Spirit of wisdom in the heart opening the understanding to the Spirit of revelation in the word.
Greek Textus Receptus
γνους 1097 5631 V-2AAP-NSM δε 1161 CONJ ο 3588 T-NSM ιησους 2424 N-NSM ειπεν 2036 5627 V-2AAI-3S αυτοις 846 P-DPM τι 5101 I-ASN διαλογιζεσθε 1260 5736 V-PNI-2P εν 1722 PREP εαυτοις 1438 F-3DPM ολιγοπιστοι 3640 A-VPM οτι 3754 CONJ αρτους 740 N-APM ουκ 3756 PRT-N ελαβετε 2983 5627 V-2AAI-2P
Robertson's NT Word Studies
16:8 Jesus asks four pungent questions about the intellectual dulness, refers to the feeding of the five thousand and uses the word kophinous (#14:20) for it and sphuridas for the four thousand (#15:37), and repeats his warning (#16:11). Every teacher understands this strain upon the patience of this Teacher of teachers.
