Mark 8:3

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

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

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

4And his disciples answered him: Whence will any one be able to satisfy these men with bread, here in the wilderness?

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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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