Mark 6:34

When they came ashore, he saw a great crowd and he had compassion on them because they were like sheep without a shepherd. So he began to teach them many things.

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And Jesus, when he came out, saw much people, and was moved with compassion toward them, because they were as sheep not having a shepherd: and he began to teach them many things.

In Context

33But they saw them leaving and many recognized them, and they ran there together on foot from all the towns, and they arrived there before them.

35When the hour was late, his disciples came to him and said, “This is a deserted place and the hour is already late.

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Cross References

Numbers 27:17a man who may go out and come in before them and lead them out and bring them in, so that your community is not like sheep that have no shepherd.”

2 Chronicles 18:16So Micaiah said, “I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains, like sheep who have no shepherd, and Yahweh said, 'These have no shepherd. Let every man return to his house in peace.'”

Jeremiah 50:6My people have been a lost flock. Their shepherds have led them astray in the mountains; 1 they have turned them around from hill to hill. They went, they forgot the place where they had lived. 1

Matthew 9:36When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were troubled and discouraged. They were like sheep without a shepherd.

Matthew 15:32Jesus called his disciples to him and said, “I have compassion on the crowd, because they have stayed with me for three days already and have nothing to eat. I do not want to send them away without eating, or they may faint on the way.”

Romans 15:2Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, in order to build him up.

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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