Mark 8:4

His followers said, “But they are a really big mob of people. We can’t get enough food out here in the bush to feed them all.”

Plain English Version

In The King James Version

And his disciples answered him, From whence can a man satisfy these men with bread here in the wilderness?

In Context

3I can’t send them home like this. Some of them have walked a long way to get here, and if they start walking home now, they will get weak and fall down. We have to give them some food.”

5Jesus said, “How much bread have you got?” The men said, “7 loaves of bread.”

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Cross References

Mark 6:52They still couldn’t understand about Jesus. They saw what he did with the bread and the fish the day before, but they couldn’t work it out. It was like their brains were no good.

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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