What does Mark 8:20 mean?

Mark 8:20 highlights themes such as faith and obedience when read in context.

How should I apply Mark 8:20 today?

Read the surrounding passage, compare related cross references, and turn the verse into a short prayer and concrete action.

And when the seven among four thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? And they said, Seven.

18Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and do ye not remember?

19When I brake the five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? They say unto him, Twelve.

20And when the seven among four thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? And they said, Seven.

21And he said unto them, How is it that ye do not understand?

22And he cometh to Bethsaida; and they bring a blind man unto him, and besought him to touch him.

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