Mark 8:3 meaning and explanation

If I send them home hungry, they will faint along the way. For some of them have come a great distance.”

Mark 8:3, Berean Standard Bible

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Jesus is speaking to his disciples about the crowd that has stayed with him for three days in a remote place with nothing to eat. His words reveal the compassion that moves him to act: he thinks not only of their hunger but of the journey home, and he knows some have come a great distance.

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