Mark 8:2

“I have compassion on the crowd, because they have been remaining with Me three days and have nothing to eat.

English Majority Text (NT)

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, when a great crowd had gathered, and not having anything to eat, Jesus, having summoned His disciples, said to them,

3And if I dismiss them hungry to their own houses, they will faint on the way; for some of them have come from a great distance.”

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Cross References

Matthew 4:2And having fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward He was hungry.

Matthew 9:36But seeing the crowds, He was moved with compassion for them, because they were harassed and prostrated, like sheep having no shepherd.

Matthew 20:34And Jesus, having compassion, touched their eyes, and immediately their eyes received sight, and they followed Him.

Mark 5:19But Jesus did not permit him, but said to him, “Go home to your own family, and report to them all the things that the Lord has done for you, and how He had compassion on you.”

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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