Mark 8:2

I have compassion on this multitude, for behold three days have they continued with me, and there is nothing which they may eat.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

In The King James Version

I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now been with me three days, and have nothing to eat:

In Context

1BUT in those days when the multitude was great and there was nothing for them to eat, he called his disciples, and said to them,

3And if it be that I send them away fasting to their houses, they will faint in the way; for some of them come from afar.

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Cross References

Matthew 4:2And he fasted forty days and forty nights; but afterward he hungered.

Matthew 9:36BUT when Jeshu saw the multitudes, he had compassion upon them, because they fainted and were dispersed as sheep that had no shepherd;

Matthew 20:34And he had compassion on them, and touched their eyes, and immediately their eyes were opened, and they went after him.

Mark 5:19But he permitted him not; but said to him, Go to thy house, to thy men, and show them what the Lord hath done for thee, and (how he) hath had mercy on thee.

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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