Mark 6:36

We think you should send the people away so that they can go to a farm or to a town, to buy some food.”

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In The King James Version

Send them away, that they may go into the country round about, and into the villages, and buy themselves bread: for they have nothing to eat.

In Context

35At the end of the day, Jesus' followers went to him and said, “It's nearly time for the sun to go down, and nobody lives here.

37Jesus said to them, “No. I want you to give them something to eat.” But they said, “What? We would have to work for more than half a year to feed this mob!”

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Cross References

Mark 3:21Someone went and told his family what Jesus was doing. Jesus' family listened to that news and they thought that Jesus had gone mad, so they went to take him home to look after him.

Matthew Henry on Mark 6:31-45

The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes. 30 And the apostles gathered themselves together unto Jesus, and told him all things, both what they had done, and what they had taught. 31 And he said unto them, Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest a while: for there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat. 32 And they departed into a desert place by ship privately. 33 And the people saw them departing, and many knew him, and ran afoot thither out of all cities, and outwent… Read the whole commentary →

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