Mark 8:2
“I feel for the crowd because they have already stayed with me for three days and they have nothing to eat.
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In Context
3If I send them home without food, they'll faint on the way. Some have come from a long way away.”
Cross References
Psalms 103:13Like a loving father, the Lord is kind and compassionate to those who follow him.
Psalms 145:15All eyes are on you, waiting in hope, and you give food at just the right time.
Matthew 4:2After fasting forty days and nights, he was hungry.
Matthew 9:36When he saw the crowds, Jesus was deeply moved with compassion for them, because they were troubled and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.
Matthew 20:34Jesus had pity on them and touched their eyes. Immediately they could see, and they followed him.
Mark 5:19But Jesus refused, telling him, “Go home to your own people, and tell them how much the Lord has done for you and how he has been merciful to 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 →