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Mark 6:36

King James Version (KJV)

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Send them away, that they may go into the country round about, and into the villages, and buy themselves bread: for they have nothing to eat.

Mark 6:36 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Mark 6:36

Theological / Devotional

Send them away. The disciples could see no solution to the problem but to dismiss the people. But the “compassion” of Jesus (see v. 34) extended to their physical well-being as well as to their spiritual.

Bread. That is, food in general, anything edible (literally, “what they were to eat”).

Nothing to eat. Textual evidence favors (cf. p. 146) the omission of these words, which are, however, clearly implied by the context.

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