Mark 8:3 If I send them home hungry, they will collapse on the way, because some of them have come a long distance."

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
If I send them home hungry, they will collapse on the way, because some of them have come a long distance."

English Standard Version
And if I send them away hungry to their homes, they will faint on the way. And some of them have come from far away.”

New American Standard Bible
"If I send them away hungry to their homes, they will faint on the way; and some of them have come from a great distance."

King James Bible
And if I send them away fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the way: for divers of them came from far.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
If I send them home hungry, they will collapse on the way, and some of them have come a long distance."

International Standard Version
If I send them away to their homes hungry, they'll faint on the road. Some of them have come a long distance."

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
And if I shall send them away fasting to their home, they will faint in the way; for some of them came from afar off.

Darby Bible Translation
and if I should dismiss them to their home fasting, they will faint on the way; for some of them are come from far.

Young's Literal Translation
and if I shall let them away fasting to their home, they will faint in the way, for certain of them are come from far.'

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's 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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

3. And if I send them away fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the way—In their eagerness they seem not to have thought of the need of provisions for such a length of time; but the Lord thought of it. In Matthew (Mt 15:32) it is, "I will not send them away fasting"—or rather, "To send them away fasting I am unwilling."