Mark 8:2

“I have compassion on the multitude, because they have stayed with me three days now and have nothing to eat.

Family 35 New Testament

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, the multitude being very large and not having anything to eat, Jesus called His disciples and said to them:

3If I send them away hungry to their homes, they will give out on the way, because some of them have come a long distance.”

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Cross References

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

Matthew 9:36Seeing the crowds He was moved with compassion for them, because they were harassed and prostrated, like sheep without a shepherd.

Matthew 20:34So Jesus had compassion and 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 family and report to them how much the Lord has done for you; and He had mercy 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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