“I have compassion on the crowd, he said, because they have already been with me for three days and have nothing to eat. And if I send them away hungry to their homes, they will faint on the way. Why the crowd waited for the Lord for three days, Matthew explains more fully, who says: And when he went up on the mountain…”
Bede, 8th c. — On the Gospel of Mark
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2I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now been with me three days, and have nothing to eat:
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1In those days the multitude being very great, and having nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples unto him, and saith unto them,
— Mark 8:2 —
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?