Mark 8:9
And there were approximately arbaat elafim (four thousand) [people]. And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach sent them away.
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
And they that had eaten were about four thousand: and he sent them away.
In Context
Cross References
Luke 18:31And having taken the Shneym Asar (Twelve) aside in a yechidus, he said to them, Hinei, we are making another aliyah leregel (pilgrimage) to Yerushalayim, and all the things having been written by the Nevi'im about the Bar Enosh + 18:31 Moshiach, Dan 7:13-14 will be fulfilled. + 18:31 Ps 118:22
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 →