He spoke this message quite frankly, and Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him.
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 astonishment of the multitudes that were eye-witnesses of them.
Commenting on Mark 8:27-38
And he spake that saying openly,.... Concerning his sufferings, death, and resurrection from the dead. He not only spoke it before them all, but in plain words, without a figure; so that it might be, and was clearly understood by them; and he spake it as the word will also bear, not only very freely, but likewise boldly, with an undaunted courage, with intrepidity of...
Verse 32. He spake that saying openly; With boldness or confidence, or without parables or figures; so that there could be no possibility, of misunderstanding him.