Mark 8:4
And his disciples answered him, “From where would anyone be able to obtain enough bread for them in the wilderness?”
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5And he questioned them, “How many loaves do you have?” And they said, “Seven.”
Cross References
Numbers 11:21And Moses said: “There are six hundred thousand footmen of this people, and yet you say, ‘I will give them flesh to eat for a whole month.’
2 Kings 7:2And one of the leaders, upon whose hand the king leaned, responding to the man of God, said, “Even if the Lord will open the floodgates of heaven, how can what you say possibly be?” And he said, “You will see it with your own eyes, and you will not eat from it.”
Matthew 15:33And the disciples said to him: “From where, then, in the desert, would we obtain enough bread to satisfy so a great multitude?”
Mark 6:52For they did not understand about the bread. For their heart had been blinded.
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 →