A moment in scripture
Mark 8:2
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I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now been with me three days, and have nothing to eat:
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The surrounding passage
- Mark 8:1
In those days the multitude being very great, and having nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples unto him, and saith unto them,
- Mark 8:3
And if I send them away fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the way: for divers of them came from far.
- Mark 8:4
And his disciples answered him, From whence can a man satisfy these men with bread here in the wilderness?
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.