Mark 8:2

I have compassion on the multitude, for behold they have now been with me three days, and have nothing to eat.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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 again, when there was a great multitude, and had nothing to eat; calling his disciples together, he saith to them:

3And if I shall send them away fasting to their home, they will faint in the way; for some of them came from afar off.

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Cross References

Psalms 103:13As a father hath compassion on his children, so hath the Lord compassion on them that fear him:

Psalms 145:15They have called the people happy, that hath these things: but happy is that people whose God is the Lord.

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

Matthew 9:36And seeing the multitudes, he had compassion on them: because they were distressed, and lying like sheep that have no shepherd.

Matthew 20:34And Jesus having compassion on them, touched their eyes. And immediately they saw, and followed him.

Mark 5:19And he admitted him not, but saith to him: Go into thy house to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and hath 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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