Mark 8:14 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Now the disciples had forgotten to take bread, neither had they in the ship with them more than one loaf. Now the disciples had forgotten to take bread, neither had they in the ship with them more than one loaf. This is another example that graphic circumstantiality which gives such chain to this briefest of the four Gospels. The circumstance of the "one loaf" only remaining, as Webster and Wilkinson remark, was more suggestive of their Master's recent miracles than the entire absence of provisions.