Mark 8:4

And his disciples answered him, 'Whence shall any one be able these here to feed with bread in a wilderness?'

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

And his disciples answered him, From whence can a man satisfy these men with bread here in the wilderness?

In Context

3and if I shall let them away fasting to their home, they will faint in the way, for certain of them are come from far.'

5And he was questioning them, 'How many loaves have ye?' and they said, 'Seven.'

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Cross References

Numbers 11:21And Moses saith, 'Six hundred thousand footmen [are] the people in whose midst I [am]; and Thou, Thou hast said, Flesh I give to them, and they have eaten, a month of days!

2 Kings 7:2And the captain whom the king hath, by whose hand he hath been supported, answereth the man of God and saith, 'Lo, Jehovah is making windows in the heavens — shall this thing be?' and he saith, 'Lo, thou art seeing it with thine eyes, and thereof thou dost not eat.'

Matthew 15:33And his disciples say to him, 'Whence to us, in a wilderness, so many loaves, as to fill so great a multitude?'

Mark 6:52for they understood not concerning the loaves, for their heart hath been hard.

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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