37He answered and said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And they say unto him, Shall we go and buy two hundred pennyworth of bread, and give them to eat?
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And there came a man from Baalshalisha, and brought the man of God bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley, and full ears of corn in the husk thereof. And he said, Give unto the people, that they may eat. …
Whence should I have flesh to give unto all this people? for they weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.
Then Jesus called his disciples unto him, and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat: and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way. …
But he said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And they said, We have no more but five loaves and two fishes; except we should go and buy meat for all this people.
But Jesus said unto them, They need not depart; give ye them to eat.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 30-44)In there verses, we have, I. The return to Christ of the apostles whom he had sent forth (Mark 6:7), to preach, and work miracles. They had dispersed themselves into several quarters of the country for some time, but when they had made good their several appointments, by consent they gathered themselves together , to compare notes, and came to Jesus, the centre of their unity, to give him an accou…
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