Mark 8:2

“I have compassion on the multitude, because now three days they continue with Me, and they have not what they may eat;

Literal Standard Version

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 great, and not having what they may eat, Jesus having called near His disciples, says to them,

3and if I will let them away fasting to their home, they will faint in the way, for certain of them are come from far.”

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Cross References

Psalms 103:13As a father has mercy on sons, || YHWH has mercy on those fearing Him.

Psalms 145:15The eyes of all look to You, || And You are giving their food to them in its season,

Matthew 4:2and having fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward He hungered.

Matthew 9:36And having seen the multitudes, He was moved with compassion for them, that they were faint and cast aside, as sheep not having a shepherd;

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

Mark 5:19and Jesus did not permit him, but says to him, “Go away to your house, to your own [friends], and tell them how the LORD did great things to you, and dealt kindly with 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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