Mark 6:36

Send the people away so that they may go to the farms and villages about here, and buy themselves something to eat."

Montgomery New Testament

In The King James Version

Send them away, that they may go into the country round about, and into the villages, and buy themselves bread: for they have nothing to eat.

In Context

35Then when the day was now far spent, his disciples came to him and said. "This place is desert, and the day is now far spent.

37In answer he said to them, "You yourselves are to give them food." "Are we to go and buy fifty dollars worth of bread," they said, "and give them food?"

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Cross References

Matthew 15:23But he answered her not a word. Then the disciples came up and kept beseeching him. "Send her away," they said, "because she wails after us."

Mark 3:21When his relatives heard of it, they came to take possession of him, for they said, "He is out of his mind."

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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