Mark 6:36

Dismiss them, that they may go into the fields around us and into the villages, and may buy themselves bread; for they have nothing to eat.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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

35And when the time was advanced, his disciples came to him, and said to him: This is a desert place, and the time is advanced.

37And he said to them: Give ye them to eat. They say to him: Shall we go and buy bread of the value of two hundred denarii, and give them to eat?

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Cross References

Matthew 15:23But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and requested of him, and said: Send her away, for she crieth after us.

Mark 3:21And his kinsmen heard, and went out to take him; for they said: He is out of his reason.

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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