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Mark 8:1 KJV
Mark · chapter 8 · verse 1
In those days the multitude being very great, and having nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples unto him, and saith unto them,Mark 8:1 · King James Version
Mark 8:1 in context
1In those days the multitude being very great, and having nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples unto him, and saith unto them,
2I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now been with me three days, and have nothing to eat:
3And if I send them away fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the way: for divers of them came from far.
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Key words (Strong's)
- multitudeochlosa crowd, a casual collection of people, a multitude of men who have flocked together in…G3793 →
- disciplesmathētēsa learner, pupil, discipleG3101 →
- nothingmēno, not lestG3361 →
- nothingtiswho, which, whatG5101 →
- havingechōto haveG2192 →
- calledproskaleōto call to, to call to one s self, to bid to come to one s self, metaph., God is said to…G4341 →
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We had the story of a miracle very like this before, in this gospel (Mar 6:35), and of this same miracle (Mat 15:32), and here is little or no addition or alternation as to the circumstances. Yet observe, 1. That our Lord Jesus was greatly followed; The multitude was very great (Mar 8:1);
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-9