Mark 8:2

I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat;

The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)

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 a very great multitude, and they having nothing to eat, he called to him his disciples, and says to them:

3and if I dismiss them fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the way; and some of them have come from afar.

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Cross References

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

Matthew 9:36And seeing the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them, because they were harassed, and scattered[9:36], as sheep having no shepherd.

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

Mark 5:19And he suffered him not; but says to him: Go into thy house, to thy friends, and announce to them how great things the Lord has done for thee, and had compassion 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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