Mark 8:2

I have compassion on the crowd, because they have stayed with me already three days and they have not anything they can eat,

Darby Translation

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, there being again a great crowd, and they having nothing that they could eat, having called his disciples to [him], he says to them,

3and if I should dismiss them to their home fasting, they will faint on the way; for some of them are come from far.

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Cross References

Psalms 103:13As a father pitieth [his] children, so Jehovah pitieth them that fear him.

Psalms 145:15The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their food in its season.

Matthew 4:2and having fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he hungered.

Matthew 9:36But when he saw the crowds he was moved with compassion for them, because they were harassed, and cast away as sheep not having a shepherd.

Matthew 20:34And Jesus, moved with compassion, touched their eyes; and immediately their eyes had sight restored to them, and they followed him.

Mark 5:19And he suffered him not, but says to him, Go to thine home to thine own people, and tell them how great things the Lord has done for thee, and has had mercy on thee.

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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