马可福音 8:3

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

如果我叫他們散開，餓著肚子回家去，他們會在路上暈倒，因為有人是從很遠的地方來的。”

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
我 若 打 发 他 们 饿 着 回 家 ， 就 必 在 路 上 困 乏 ， 因 为 其 中 有 从 远 处 来 的 。

Contextual Overview

¹ Another time there was a great crowd with Jesus that had nothing to eat. So Jesus called his followers and said, ² "I feel sorry for these people, because they have already been with me for three days, and they have nothing to eat. ³ If I send them home hungry, they will faint on the way. Some of them live a long way from here." ⁴ Jesus' followers answered, "How can we get enough bread to feed all these people? We are far away from any town." ⁵ Jesus asked, "How many loaves of bread do you have?" They answered, "Seven." ⁶ Jesus told the people to sit on the ground. Then he took the seven loaves, gave thanks to God, and divided the bread. He gave the pieces to his followers to give to the people, and they did so. ⁷ The followers also had a few small fish. After Jesus gave thanks for the fish, he told his followers to give them to the people also. ⁸ All the people ate and were satisfied. Then his followers filled seven baskets with the leftover pieces of food. ⁹ There were about four thousand people who ate. After they had eaten, Jesus sent them home.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Judges 8:4-6, 1 Samuel 14:28-31, 1 Samuel 30:10-12, Isaiah 40:31

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 19:6 - cake Psalms 107:5 - General Matthew 14:15 - send Matthew 15:32 - lest Mark 6:37 - give John 21:9 - they saw Acts 27:34 - for this

Cross-References

Genesis 7:11
When Noah was six hundred years old, the flood started. On the seventeenth day of the second month of that year the underground springs split open, and the clouds in the sky poured out rain.

Genesis 7:24
And the waters continued to cover the earth for one hundred fifty days.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And if I send them away fasting to their own houses,.... Greek, "to their own house", or home; but all the Oriental versions render it as we do, in the plural, "their own houses", or habitations; and it seems from hence that they were now tasting, and at least had had no food all that day, whatever they might have the day before, which it not certain.

They will faint by the way; for want of food their strength will be exhausted, their animal spirits will fail, their nerves will be loosened, they will not be able to perform their journey, or get to the end of it:

for divers of them came from far; perhaps some had followed him from the coasts of Tyre and Sidon, from whence he came last; and others from Decapolis, through the midst of the borders of which he passed hither; and others from different parts, who had heard of his coming; :-.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See this passage explained in the notes at Matthew 15:32-39.

Mark 8:1

In those days - While in the wilderness, where he had cured the deaf-mute man.

Having nothing to eat - Having come unprovided, or having consumed what they had brought.

Mark 8:2

I have compassions - I pity their condition. I am disposed to relieve them.

Mark 8:9

Four thousand - Four thousand “men,” besides women and children. See Matthew 15:38. See this passage explained in the notes at Matthew 15:32-39.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Mark 8:3. For divers of them came from far. — And they could not possibly reach their respective homes without perishing, unless they got food.