Mark 8:6
Then he commanded the multitude to sit downe on the grounde: and hee tooke the seuen loaues, and gaue thankes, brake them, and gaue to his disciples to set before them, and they did set them before the people.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
5And hee asked them, Howe many loaues haue ye? And they said, Seuen.
Cross References
1 Samuel 9:13When ye shall come into the citie, ye shall finde him straightway yet he come vp to the hie place to eate: for the people will not eate vntill he come, because he will blesse the sacrifice: and then eate they that be bidden to the feast: nowe therefore goe vp: for euen now shall ye find him.
Matthew 15:35Then he commanded the multitude to sit downe on the ground,
Mark 6:39So he commanded them to make them all sit downe by companies vpon the greene grasse.
Luke 12:37Blessed are those seruants, whom the Lord when he commeth shall finde waking: verely I say vnto you, he will girde himselfe about, and make them to sit downe at table, and will come forth, and serue them.
John 2:5His mother saide vnto the seruants, Whatsoeuer he sayeth vnto you, doe it.
John 6:23And that there came other ships from Tiberias neere vnto the place where they ate the bread, after the Lord had giuen thankes.
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 →