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 Bible (Challoner, 1752)

In The King James Version

And if I send them away fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the way: for divers of them came from far.

In Context

2I have compassion on the multitude, for behold they have now been with me three days and have nothing to eat.

4And his disciples answered him: From whence can any one fill them here with bread in the wilderness?

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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 →

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