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

2I have compassion on the crowd, because they have stayed with me already three days and they have not anything they can eat, 3and if I should dismiss them to their home fasting, they will faint on the way; for some of them are come from far. And his disciples answered him, Whence shall one be able to satisfy these with bread here in a desert place? 5And he asked them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven. 6And he commanded the crowd to sit down on the ground. And having taken the seven loaves, he gave thanks, and broke [them] and gave [them] to his disciples, that they might set [them] before [them]; and they set [them] before 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

• disciplesμαθητήςmathētēs · discipleG3101
• answeredἀποκρίνωapokrinomai · to answerG611
• oneτιςtis · oneG5100
• ableδύναμαιdunamai · be ableG1410
• satisfyχορτάζωchortazō · to feedG5526
• breadἄρτοςartos · breadG740
• hereὧδεhōde · hereG5602
• placeἐρημίαerēmia · desertG2047

Cross-references for Mark 8:4

• Mark 6:36send them away that they may go into the country and villages around, and buy themselves bread, for they have not anything they can eat.
• Numbers 11:21And Moses said, The people in whose midst I am are six hundred thousand footmen; and thou sayest, I will give them flesh that they may eat a whole month.
• 2 Kings 4:42And there came a man from Baal-shalishah, and brought the man of God bread of the first-fruits, twenty loaves of barley, and fresh ears of corn in his sack. And he said, Give to the people that they may eat.
• 2 Kings 7:2And the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God and said, Behold, if Jehovah should make windows in the heavens, would this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.
• Psalms 78:19And they spoke against God: they said, Is God able to prepare a table in the wilderness?
• Matthew 15:33And his disciples say to him, Whence should we have so many loaves in [the] wilderness as to satisfy so great a crowd?
• John 6:7Philip answered him, Loaves for two hundred denarii are not sufficient for them, that each may have some little [portion].

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