Mark 8:2
I have compassion on the multitude, because they have remained with me now three days, and they have nothing to eat.
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Psalms 103:13Even as a father pitieth his children, So the LORD pitieth them that fear him.
Psalms 145:15The eyes of all wait upon thee, And thou givest them their food in due season;
Matthew 4:2And when he had tasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward hungry.
Matthew 9:36And seeing the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them, because they were harassed and scattered about, as sheep having no shepherd.
Matthew 20:34Then Jesus, moved with compassion, touched their eyes; and they immediately received sight, and followed him.
Mark 5:19And he did not permit him, but said to him, Go to thy house to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and that he hath had compassion on thee.
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 →