Mark 8:6

And he directed the multitudes to recline on the ground: and he took the seven loaves, and blessed, and brake, and grave to his disciples to set forth; and they set before the multitudes.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

And he commanded the people to sit down on the ground: and he took the seven loaves, and gave thanks, and brake, and gave to his disciples to set before them; and they did set them before the people.

In Context

5And he asked them: How many loaves have ye? They say to him, Seven.

7And there were a few fishes; and them he also blessed, and ordered them set forth.

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Cross References

Matthew 15:35And he commanded the multitudes to recline on the ground.

Mark 6:39And he bid them make the people recline on the grass by companies.

Luke 12:37Happy are those servants, whom their lord, when he cometh, shall find so doing. Verily I say to you: He will gird his loins, and make them recline, and will pass around and serve them.

John 2:5His mother said to the waiters: Whatever he saith to you, do it.

John 6:23yet that other ships had come from Tiberias, near to the place where they ate the bread when Jesus blessed it.

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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