Mark 8:4

And his disciples answered him: From whence can any one fill them here with bread in the wilderness?

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

And his disciples answered him, From whence can a man satisfy these men with bread here in the wilderness?

In Context

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.

5And he asked them: How many loaves have ye? Who said: Seven.

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Cross References

Numbers 11:21And Moses said: There are six hundred thousand footmen of this people, and sayest thou: I will give them flesh to eat a whole month?

2 Kings 7:2Then one of the lords, upon whose hand the king leaned, answering the man of God, said: If the Lord should make hood-gates in heaven, can that possibly be which thou sayest? And he said: Thou shalt see it with thy eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.

Matthew 15:33And the disciples say unto him: Whence then should we have so many loaves in the desert, as to fill so great a multitude?

Mark 6:52For they understood not concerning the loaves; for their heart was 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 →

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