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Mark 8:2 KJV
Mark · chapter 8 · verse 2
I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now been with me three days, and have nothing to eat:Mark 8:2 · King James Version
Mark 8:2 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.
4And his disciples answered him, From whence can a man satisfy these men with bread here in the wilderness?
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- compassionsplagchnizomaito be moved as to one's bowels, hence to be moved with compassion, have compassionG4697 →
- multitudeochlosa crowd, a casual collection of people, a multitude of men who have flocked together in…G3793 →
- nothingouno, not in direct questions expecting an affirmative answerG3756 →
- nothingtiswho, which, whatG5101 →
- threetreisthreeG5140 →
- dayshēmerathe day, used of the natural day, or the interval between sunrise and sunset, as…G2250 →
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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