Mark 6:36

Send the people away, so that they may go to the farms and villages around and buy themselves something to eat.”

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In The King James Version

Send them away, that they may go into the country round about, and into the villages, and buy themselves bread: for they have nothing to eat.

In Context

35When it grew late, his disciples came up to him, and said, “This is a lonely spot, and it is already late.

37But Jesus answered, “It is for you to give them something to eat.” “Are we to go and spend almost a year’s wages on bread,” they asked, “to give them to eat?”

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Cross References

Matthew 15:23But Jesus did not answer her a word; and his disciples came up and begged him to send her away. “She keeps calling out after us,” they said.

Mark 3:21When his relatives heard of it, they went to take charge of him, for they said that he was out of his mind.

Matthew Henry on Mark 6:31-45

The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes. 30 And the apostles gathered themselves together unto Jesus, and told him all things, both what they had done, and what they had taught. 31 And he said unto them, Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest a while: for there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat. 32 And they departed into a desert place by ship privately. 33 And the people saw them departing, and many knew him, and ran afoot thither out of all cities, and outwent… Read the whole commentary →

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