Mark 6:36

Send the people away so that they can go into the surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselves some bread, for they have nothing to eat.”

Text-Critical English NT

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 the hour was already quite late, his disciples came to him and said, “This place is desolate, and the hour is now late.

37But Jesus answered them, “You give them something to eat.” They said to him, “Are we to go and buy two hundred denarii worth of bread and give it to them to eat?”

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Cross References

Matthew 15:23But he did not respond to her at all. So his disciples came to him and urged him, “Send her away, for she is crying out after us.”

Mark 3:21When his family heard about it, they went out to restrain him, for they said, “He is 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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