Mark 8:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³And if I send them away fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the way: for divers of them came from far.

Mark 8:3 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Judges 8:4-6
And Gideon came to Jordan, and passed over, he, and the three hundred men that were with him, faint, yet pursuing them. …
Isaiah 40:31
But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
1 Samuel 14:28-31
Then answered one of the people, and said, Thy father straitly charged the people with an oath, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth any food this day. And the people were faint. …
1 Samuel 30:10-12
But David pursued, he and four hundred men: for two hundred abode behind, which were so faint that they could not go over the brook Besor. …

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Commentary

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…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 3)

3. And if I send them away fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the way--In their eagerness they seem not to have thought of the need of provisions for such a length of time; but the Lord thought of it. In Matthew (Mt 15:32) it is, “I will not send them away fasting”--or rather, “To send them away fasting I am unwilling.”