Mark 8:4
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New International Version (©2011)
His disciples answered, "But where in this remote place can anyone get enough bread to feed them?"

New Living Translation (©2007)
His disciples replied, "How are we supposed to find enough food to feed them out here in the wilderness?"

English Standard Version (©2001)
And his disciples answered him, “How can one feed these people with bread here in this desolate place?”

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
And His disciples answered Him, "Where will anyone be able to find enough bread here in this desolate place to satisfy these people?"

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And his disciples answered him, From whence can a man satisfy these men with bread here in the wilderness?

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
His disciples answered Him, "Where can anyone get enough bread here in this desolate place to fill these people?"

International Standard Version (©2012)
His disciples answered him, "Where could anyone get enough bread to feed these people out here in the wilderness?"

NET Bible (©2006)
His disciples answered him, "Where can someone get enough bread in this desolate place to satisfy these people?"

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
His disciples said to him, “From where here in the desert can a man supply enough bread for all of these?”

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
His disciples asked him, "Where could anyone get enough bread to feed these people in this place where no one lives?"

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And his disciples answered him, From where can a man satisfy these men with bread here in the desert?

American King James Version
And his disciples answered him, From where can a man satisfy these men with bread here in the wilderness?

American Standard Version
And his disciples answered him, Whence shall one be able to fill these men with bread here in a desert place?

Douay-Rheims Bible
And his disciples answered him: From whence can any one fill them here with bread in the wilderness?

Darby Bible Translation
And his disciples answered him, Whence shall one be able to satisfy these with bread here in a desert place?

English Revised Version
And his disciples answered him, Whence shall one be able to fill these men with bread here in a desert place?

Webster's Bible Translation
And his disciples answered him, From whence can a man satisfy these men with bread here in the wilderness?

Weymouth New Testament
"Where can we possibly get bread here in this remote place to satisfy such a crowd?" answered His disciples.

World English Bible
His disciples answered him, "From where could one satisfy these people with bread here in a deserted place?"

Young's Literal Translation
And his disciples answered him, 'Whence shall any one be able these here to feed with bread in a wilderness?'

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

8:1-10 Our Lord Jesus encouraged the meanest to come to him for life and grace. Christ knows and considers our frames. The bounty of Christ is always ready; to show that, he repeated this miracle. His favours are renewed, as our wants and necessities are. And those need not fear want, who have Christ to live upon by faith, and do so with thanksgiving.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 4. - Whence shall one be able to fill these men with bread here in a desert place? St. Matthew (Matthew 15:33) gives the question thus: "Whence should we have so many loaves in a desert place, as to fill so great a multitude?" The disciples, measuring the difficulty by human reason, thought that it was impossible to find so many loaves in the desert. But Christ in this necessity, when human resources fail, supplies Divine; and meanwhile the disciples' estimate of the impossibility illustrates the grandeur of the miracle.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And his disciples answered him,.... The Syriac version renders it, "say unto him"; and the Persic and Ethiopic, "said unto him"; forgetting the late miracle of feeding five thousand with five loaves and two fishes, when they had now a less number, and more provisions:

from whence can a man satisfy these men with bread here in the wilderness? from what place, and by what ways and means can it be thought, that such a quantity of bread can be got at any rate in a desert, as to satisfy so large a number of hungry men? See Gill on Matthew 15:33.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

4. From whence can a man satisfy these men with bread here in the wilderness?—Though the question here is the same as when He fed the five thousand, they evidently now meant no more by it than that they had not the means of feeding the multitude; modestly leaving the Lord to decide what was to be done. And this will the more appear from His not now trying them, as before, by saying, "They need not depart, give ye them to eat"; but simply asking what they had, and then giving His directions.

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The Feeding of the Four Thousand
…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 where can a man satisfy these men with bread here in the wilderness? 5And he asked them, How many loaves have you? And they said, Seven. …

Mark 8:3 If I send them home hungry, they will collapse on the way, because some of them have come a long distance."
Mark 8:5 "How many loaves do you have?" Jesus asked. "Seven," they replied.