Mark 8:2

I compassionate this multitude; for, lo, three days have they continued with me, and they have nothing to eat.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now been with me three days, and have nothing to eat:

In Context

1And in those days, when the multitude was great, and had nothing to eat, he called his disciples, and said to them:

3And if I send them to their homes fasting, they will faint by the way: for some of them have come from a great distance.

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Cross References

Matthew 4:2And he fasted forty days and forty nights, and afterward he hungered.

Matthew 9:36And when Jesus looked on the multitudes, he pitied them; because they were wearied and dispersed, like sheep that have no shepherd.

Matthew 20:34And he had compassion on them, and touched their eyes: and immediately their eyes were opened, and they followed him.

Mark 5:19And he suffered him not, but said to him: Go home to thy people, and tell them what the Lord hath done for thee, and hath compassionated thee.

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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