Mark 8:1–10

Four Thousand are Fed

Matt. 15:32–38

8In those days, ^athe multitude being very great and having nothing to eat, Jesus called His disciples to Him and said to them, ²“I have ^bcompassion on the multitude, because they have now continued with Me three days and have nothing to eat. ³And if I send them away hungry to their own houses, they will faint on the way; for some of them have come from afar.”

⁴Then His disciples answered Him, “How can one satisfy these people with bread here in the wilderness?”

^5cHe asked them, “How many loaves do you have?”

And they said, “Seven.”

⁶So He commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground. And He took the seven loaves and gave thanks, broke them and gave them to His disciples to set before them; and they set them before the multitude. ⁷They also had a few small fish; and ^dhaving blessed them, He said to set them also before them. ⁸So they ate and were filled, and they took up seven large baskets of leftover fragments. ⁹Now those who had eaten were about four thousand. And He sent them away, ^10eimmediately got into the boat with His disciples, and came to the region of Dalmanutha.