Mark 8:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

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

And if I send them away fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the way: for divers of them came from far. In their eagerness they seem not to have thought of the need of provisions for each a length of time; but the Lord thought of it. In Matt. (Matthew 15:32) it is, "I will not send them away fasting" х apolusai (G630) autous (G846) neestais (G3523) ou (G3756) theloo (G2309)] - or rather, her, 'To send them away fasting I am unwilling.'

Mark 8:3

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