Mark 8:7

And there were fishes, a few: and also over them he blessed, and said that they should set them.

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

In The King James Version

And they had a few small fishes: and he blessed, and commanded to set them also before them.

In Context

6and he directed the multitudes to recline upon the ground, and he took those seven loaves, and blessed and brake and gave to his disciples that they should set, and they set before the assemblies.

8And they all ate and were satisfied, and took up the abundancies of the fragments, seven panniers.

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Cross References

Luke 6:41For why behold you the rod that is in the eye of your brother, but the rafter in your (own) eye is not seen by you?

John 21:5And Jeshu said to them, Children, have you any thing to eat? They say to him, No.

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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