Mark 8:4

Mark 8:4 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And his disciples answered him, From whence can a man satisfy these men with bread here in the wilderness?
• New International Version (NIV)His disciples answered, “But where in this remote place can anyone get enough bread to feed them?”
• English Standard Version (ESV)And his disciples answered him, "How can one feed these people with bread here in this desolate place?"
• New King James Version (NKJV)Then His disciples answered Him, “How can one satisfy these people with bread here in the wilderness?”

Context of Mark 8:4

2“I have compassion on the crowd, because they’ve already stayed with me three days and have nothing to eat. 3If I send them home hungry, they will collapse on the way, and some of them have come a long distance.” His disciples answered him, “Where can anyone get enough bread here in this desolate place to feed these people?” 5“How many loaves do you have?” he asked them. “Seven,” they said. 6He commanded the crowd to sit down on the ground. Taking the seven loaves, he gave thanks, broke them, and gave them to his disciples to set before the people. So they served them to the crowd.

Mark 8:4 word by word

Καὶ ἀπεκρίθησαν αὐτῷ οἱ μαθηταὶ αὐτοῦ ὅτι πόθεν τούτους δυνήσεταί τις ὧδε χορτάσαι ἄρτων ἐπ᾽ ἐρημίας;Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Andκαίkai · andG2532
• hisαὐτόςautos · it/s/heG846
• disciplesὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• disciplesμαθητήςmathētēs · discipleG3101
• answeredἀποκρίνωapokrinomai · to answerG611
• From whenceπόθενpothen · whenceG4159
• canδύναμαιdunamai · be ableG1410
• a manτιςtis · oneG5100
• satisfyχορτάζωchortazō · to feedG5526
• theseοὗτοςhoutos houtoi hautē hautai · this/he/she/itG3778
• with breadἄρτοςartos · breadG740
• hereὧδεhōde · hereG5602
• inἐπίepi · upon/to/againstG1909
• the wildernessἐρημίαerēmia · desertG2047

Cross-references for Mark 8:4

• Mark 6:36Send them away so that they can go into the surrounding countryside and villages to buy themselves something to eat.”
• Numbers 11:21But Moses replied, “I’m in the middle of a people with six hundred thousand foot soldiers, yet you say, ‘I will give them meat, and they will eat for a month.’
• 2 Kings 4:42A man from Baal-shalishah came to the man of God with his sack full of twenty loaves of barley bread from the first bread of the harvest. Elisha said, “Give it to the people to eat.”
• 2 Kings 7:2Then the captain, the king’s right-hand man, responded to the man of God, “Look, even if the Lord were to make windows in heaven, could this really happen?” Elisha announced, “You will in fact see it with your own eyes, but you won’t eat any of it.”
• Psalms 78:19They spoke against God, saying, “Is God able to provide food in the wilderness?
• Matthew 15:33The disciples said to him, “Where could we get enough bread in this desolate place to feed such a crowd?”
• John 6:7Philip answered him, “Two hundred denarii worth of bread wouldn’t be enough for each of them to have a little.”

Commentaries on Mark 8:4

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 4etc. - See on Matthew 14:14; (note); Matthew 15:35.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 1-9Verses 1-9 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…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 4The disciples' question shows their lack of understanding. They knew God provided manna in the wilderness during the time of Moses (Exodus 16). They were now with someone much greater than Moses (see Mark 9:5–7). They had recently seen him feed more people in a similar situation (6:30–44). But they still did not understand (compare 6:52). Even so, Jesus used them to provide physical and spiritual food to the hungry (8:6–8). What they could not do alone…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 44. 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…Read the comment

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• Jesus, the Christ
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Commentaries on Mark 8

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Catena Aurea
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• John Lightfoot Commentary
• Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• The Fourfold Gospel and Commentary on Acts
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings