Mark 8:3

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

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

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BSBPD

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

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

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

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“and if I send them away fasting to their home, they will faint on the way; and some of them are come from far.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“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.'”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Mark 8:3 — 4 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Judges 8:4Then Gideon and his three hundred men came to the Jordan and crossed it, exhausted yet still in pursuit.
  2. 1 Samuel 14:28Then 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.”
  3. 1 Samuel 30:10because two hundred men were too exhausted to cross the brook. But David and four hundred men continued in pursuit.
  4. 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.

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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