Mark 8:3

If I send them home without food, they'll faint on the way. Some have come from a long way away.”

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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

2“I feel for the crowd because they have already stayed with me for three days and they have nothing to eat.

4“Where could anybody find enough bread to feed them here in this wilderness?” answered his disciples.

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Cross References

Judges 8:4Then Gideon crossed the Jordan with his three hundred men. Even though they were exhausted they continued the chase.

1 Samuel 30:10Two hundred of them remained behind there because they were too tired to cross the valley while David continued on with four hundred men.

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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