Mark 8:2

I have compassion on the multitude, because they have continued with me now three days, and have nothing to eat.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now been with me three days, and have nothing to eat:

In Context

1In those days, the multitude being very great, and having nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples to him and said to them:

3And if I send them home fasting, they will faint on the way; for some of them have come from afar.

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Cross References

Matthew 4:2And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward hungry.

Matthew 9:36And when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them, because they were troubled and scattered as sheep that had no shepherd.

Matthew 20:34Jesus had compassion on them, and touched their eyes; and their eyes immediately received sight, and they followed him.

Mark 5:19And he did not permit him, but said to him: Go home to your relatives, and make known to them what things the Lord has done for you, and that he has had compassion on you.

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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