Mark 8:3

And if I send them away without food to their house, they will faint on the way, for some of them come from afar.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

And if I send them away fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the way: for divers of them came from far.

In Context

2I feel compassion toward the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and do not have what they might eat.

4And his disciples answered him, From where will anyone be able to fill these men of loaves here in a desolate place?

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Cross References

Judges 8:4And Gideon came to the Jordan, [and] passed over, he, and the three hundred men who were with him, faint, yet pursuing.

1 Samuel 30:10But David pursued, he and four hundred men, for two hundred stayed behind, who were so faint that they could not go over the brook Besor.

Matthew Henry on Mark 8:2-10

Christ Feeds the Four Thousand. 1 In those days the multitude being very great, and having nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples unto him, and saith unto them, 2 I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now been with me three days, and have nothing to eat: 3 And if I send them away fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the way: for divers of them came from far. 4 And his disciples answered him, From whence can a man satisfy these men with bread here in the wilderness? 5 And he asked… Read the whole commentary →

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