Mark 8:9

There were 4,000 men in that big mob. After they finished eating that food, Jesus told them to go home.

Plain English Version

In The King James Version

And they that had eaten were about four thousand: and he sent them away.

In Context

8They all ate and ate until they were full, and there was a lot of food that they didn’t eat. Then they picked up all those left-over bits of food, and they filled up 7 baskets with it.

10Straight away, Jesus and his followers got into a boat and went across the lake to a place called Dalmanutha.

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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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