Mark 8:3 BSB — MannaFest

Mark 8:3

If I send them home hungry, they will faint along the way. For some of them have come a great distance.”

BSB

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ASV

and if I send them away fasting to their home, they will faint on the way; and some of them are come from far.

KJV

And 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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Commentary

6 voices

Theophylact of Ohrid

Catena Aurea by Aquinas (1107)

After the Lord had performed the former miracle concerning the multiplication of the loaves, now again, a fitting occasion presents itself, and He takes the opportunity of working a similar miracle; wherefore it is said, In those days, the multitude being very great, and having nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples unto him, and, saith unto them, I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now been with me three days, and have nothing to eat.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

Ambrose of Milan

Catena Aurea by Aquinas (397)

(in Luc. 6:73) The good Lord indeed whilst He requires diligence, gives strength; nor will He dismiss them fasting, lest they faint by the way, that is, either in the course of this life, or before they have reached the fountainhead head of life, that is, the Father, and have learnt that Christ is of the Father, lest haply, after receiving that He is born of a virgin, they begin to esteem His virtue not that of God, but of a man.

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

And if I send them away fasting to their own houses,.... Greek, "to their own house", or home; but all the Oriental versions render it as we do, in the plural, "their own houses", or habitations; and it seems from hence that they were now tasting, and at least had had no food all that day, whatever they might have the day before, which it not certain.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, Rev. ii. Christ would by no means have them go home fasting, for it is not his manner to send those empty way from him, that in a right manner attend on him. The doubts of Christians are sometimes made to work for the magnifying of the power of Christ.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Mark (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition) (1857)

Once more we see our Lord feeding a great multitude with a few loaves and fish. He knew the heart of man. He saw the rise of cavilers and skeptics, who would question the reality of the wonderful works He performed. By repeating the mighty miracle here recorded, He stops the mouth of all who are not wilfully blind to evidence. Publicly, and before four thousand witnesses, He shows His almighty power a second time. Let us observe in this passage how great is the kindness and compassion of our Lord Jesus Christ .

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

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Original language & word study

18 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
καὶ	kai	And	G2532 →
ἐὰν	ean	if	G1437 →
ἀπολύσω	apolusō	I shall send away	G630 →
αὐτοὺς	autous	them	G846 →
νήστεις	nēsteis	hungry	G3523 →
εἰς	eis	to	G1519 →
οἶκον	oikon	[the] homes	G3624 →
αὐτῶν,	autōn	of them,	G846 →
ἐκλυθήσονται	ekluthēsontai	they will faint	G1590 →
ἐν	en	on	G1722 →
τῇ	tēa	the	G3588 →
ὁδῷ·	hodō	way;	G3598 →
καί	kai	And	G2532 →
τινες	tines	some	G5100 →
αὐτῶν	autōn	of them	G846 →
ἀπὸ	apo	from	G575 →
μακρόθεν	makrothen	afar	G3113 →
ἥκασιν.¶	hēkasin	have come.	G2240 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk5

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Isaiah 40:31
But those who wait upon the LORD will renew their strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not faint.
leads to
- Lamentations 3:25–26
  The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him.
- 2 Corinthians 4:16
  Therefore we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, yet our inner self is being renewed day by day.
- Psalms 27:13–14
  Still I am certain to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
- Psalms 103:5
  who satisfies you with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
- 2 Corinthians 12:9–10
  But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly in my weaknesses, so that the power of…