Mark 8:2

“These people have been with me a long time, three days. Now their food has run out. I feel sorry for them.

Nyangumarta (portions)

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

1Again one day many people gathered together in the desert. They were listening to Jesus. After that their food ran out (lit. 'became nothing for them'). Jesus called his men, he said to them,

3I will not send them away to their countries hungry. When they go they would fall down with hunger. They have come from a long way.”

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Cross References

Mark 5:19He replied, “No. Return to your people. Tell them God was sorry for you, he truly made you well.”

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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