Mark 8:9

And those who ate were about four thousand, and he sent them away.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

And they that had eaten were about four thousand: and he sent them away.

In Context

8And they ate and were filled. And they took up seven hampers of surplus fragments.

10And straightaway having entered into the boat with his disciples, he came into the parts of Dalmanutha.

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Cross References

Luke 18:31And having taken along the twelve, he said to them, Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and all the things that are written through the prophets about the Son of man will be completed.

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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