Mark 8:9
And the men who had eaten, were about four thousand: and he sent them away.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
And they that had eaten were about four thousand: and he sent them away.
In Context
8And they ate, and were satisfied: and they took up seven baskets of the remaining fragments.
10And immediately he entered a ship, with his disciples, and came to the place Dalmanutha.
Cross References
Luke 18:31And Jesus took his twelve, and said to them: Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem; and all the things written in the prophets, concerning the Son of man, will be fulfilled.
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 →