Mark 8:3
And if I shall send them away fasting to their home, they will faint in the way; for some of them came from afar off.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
4And his disciples answered him: From whence can any one fill them here with bread in the wilderness?
Cross References
Judges 8:4And when Gedeon was come to the Jordan, he passed over it with the three hundred men, that were with him: who were so weary that they could not pursue after them that fled.
1 Samuel 30:10But David pursued, he and four hundred men: for two hundred stayed, who being weary could not go over the torrent Besor.
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 →