Mark 8:35

For whosoever will save his life,.... Life is a valuable thing, and all that a man has he will give for it; self preservation is a principle in nature; and it becomes every man to take all lawful…

See this passage illustrated in the notes at Mat. 16:13-28. Mar 8:32 He spake that saying openly - With boldness or confidence, or without parables or figures, so that there could be no possibility of…

For whosoever will save his life - On this and the following verses, see Mat 16:24, etc.

We have read a great deal of the doctrine Christ preached, and the miracles he wrought, which were many, and strange, and well-attested, of various kinds, and wrought in several places, to the…

shall lose it This solemn saying our Lord is found to have uttered on no less than fourseveral occasions: (a) here, which corresponds with Mat 16:25; Luk 9:24; (b) Mat 10:39; (c) Luk 17:33; (d) Joh…