Mark 8:3

If I shall send them away to their homes fasting, they will faint on the road; indeed some of them have come from afar.

1902 William Baxter Godbey NT

In The King James Version

And if I send them away fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the way: for divers of them came from far.

In Context

2I sympathize with the multitude because three days already abide unto me, and they have nothing which they may eat.

4And His disciples responded, Whence shall any one be able to feed these with bread in the desert?

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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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