The Feeding of the Four Thousand
Mark 8:3
In 9 translations
- BSB
- If I send them home hungry, they will faint along the way. For some of them have come a great distance.”
- KJV
- And if I send them away fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the way: for divers of them came from far.
- WEB
- If I send them away fasting to their home, they will faint on the way, for some of them have come a long way.”
- ASV
- and if I send them away fasting to their home, they will faint on the way; and some of them are come from far.
- LSV
- and if I will let them away fasting to their home, they will faint in the way, for certain of them are come from far.”
- YLT
- and if I shall let them away fasting to their home, they will faint in the way, for certain of them are come from far.'
- DBY
- and if I should dismiss them to their home fasting, they will faint on the way; for some of them are come from far.
- DRC
- And if I shall send them away fasting to their home, they will faint in the way; for some of them came from afar off.
- GNV
- And if I sende them away fasting to their owne houses, they woulde faint by the way: for some of them came from farre.
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Where the editions differ
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- NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles read καί (“And”); Textus Receptus, Byzantine text read γὰρ (“for”).
- NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Tregelles, Textus Receptus read ἥκασιν.¶ (“have come”); Byzantine text read ἥκουσιν (“come”); Westcott–Hort read εἰσίν (“are”).
Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (1)
- In STEPBible’s comparison, NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles include ἀπὸ (“from”); Textus Receptus, Byzantine text do not include this wording.
SBLGNT apparatus (3)
A comparison of published Greek editions. “Add” means after the SBLGNT wording; “omit” refers to that wording.
- SBLGNT: καί τινες. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read καί τινες; Robinson–Pierpont read τινὲς γὰρ.
- SBLGNT: ἀπὸ. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read ἀπὸ; Robinson–Pierpont omit this wording.
- SBLGNT: ἥκασιν. Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read ἥκασιν; Westcott and Hort (1881) read εἰσίν; Robinson–Pierpont read ἥκουσιν.
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Original-language editions
- SBLGNT
- καὶ ἐὰν ἀπολύσω αὐτοὺς νήστεις εἰς οἶκον αὐτῶν, ἐκλυθήσονται ἐν τῇ ὁδῷ· καί τινες αὐτῶν ἀπὸ μακρόθεν ἥκασιν.
- RP2018
- καὶ ἐὰν ἀπολύσω αὐτοὺς νήστεις εἰς οἶκον αὐτῶν, ἐκλυθήσονται ἐν τῇ ὁδῷ· τινὲς γὰρ αὐτῶν μακρόθεν ἥκουσιν.
- TR-Boyd
- καὶ ἐὰν ἀπολύσω αὐτοὺς νήστεις εἰς οἶκον αὐτῶν, ἐκλυθήσονται ἐν τῇ ὁδῷ· τινὲς γὰρ αὐτῶν μακρόθεν ἥκασι.ἥκασι ¦ ἥκουσι ELZ
- SCR1894
- και εαν απολυσω αυτους νηστεις εις οικον αυτων εκλυθησονται εν τη οδω τινες γαρ αυτων μακροθεν ηκασιν
Who and where
◆ Feeding of Four Thousand
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In the reference works topics that cite this verse
Divers; Diverse; DiversitiesFaintLord's Supper; (Eucharist)Mark, the Gospel According toMiraclesJesus, the Christ
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Cross-references most cited first
- Isaiah 40:31But those who wait upon the LORD will renew their strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not faint.
- Judges 8:4–6Then Gideon and his three hundred men came to the Jordan and crossed it, exhausted yet still in pursuit. So Gideon said to the men of Succoth, “Please give my troops some bread, for they are exhausted, and I am still…
- 1 Samuel 14:28–31Then one of the soldiers told him, “Your father bound the troops with a solemn oath, saying, ‘Cursed is the man who eats food today.’ That is why the people are faint.” “My father has brought trouble to the land,”…
- 1 Samuel 30:10–12because two hundred men were too exhausted to cross the brook. But David and four hundred men continued in pursuit. Now his men found an Egyptian in the field and brought him to David. They gave the man water to drink…
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