2I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now been with me three days, and have nothing to eat:
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But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd.
He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him.
The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season.
The LORD is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-9)We had the story of a miracle very like this before, in this gospel (Mark 6:35), and of this same miracle (Matt. 15:32), and here is little or no addition or alternation as to the circumstances. Yet observe, 1. That our Lord Jesus was greatly followed; The multitude was very great (Mark 8:1); notwithstanding the wicked arts of the scribes and Pharisees to blemish him, and to blast his interest, th…
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