Mark 6:36

Geneva Bible

Let them depart, that they may goe into the countrey and townes about, and buy them bread: for they haue nothing to eate.

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
So send the people away. They need to go to the farms and towns around here to buy some food to eat."

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
let the departe that they maye goo into the countrey rounde about and into the tounes and bye the breed: for they have nothinge to eate.

International Standard Version
Send the crowdsthem">[fn] away so that they can go to the neighboring farms and villages and buy themselves something to eat."

New American Standard Bible
send them away so that they may go into the surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselves something to eat."

New Century Version
Send the people away so they can go to the countryside and towns around here to buy themselves something to eat."

Update Bible Version
send them away, that they may go into the country and villages round about, and buy themselves somewhat to eat.

Webster's Bible Translation
Send them away, that they may go into the country around, and into the villages, and buy themselves bread: for they have nothing to eat.

Amplified Bible
send the crowds away so that they may go into the surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselves something to eat."

English Standard Version
Send them away to go into the surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselves something to eat."

World English Bible
Send them away, that they may go into the surrounding country and villages, and buy themselves bread, for they have nothing to eat."

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Send them away, that they may go into the country and villages round about, and buy themselves bread; for they have nothing to eat.

Weymouth's New Testament
send them away that they may go to the farms and villages near here and buy themselves something to eat."

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
lete hem go in to the nexte townes and villagis, to bie hem meete to ete.

English Revised Version
send them away, that they may go into the country and villages round about, and buy themselves somewhat to eat.

Berean Standard Bible
Dismiss the crowd so they can go to the surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselves something to eat."

Contemporary English Version
Let the crowds leave, so they can go to the farms and villages near here and buy something to eat."

American Standard Version
send them away, that they may go into the country and villages round about, and buy themselves somewhat to eat.

Bible in Basic English
Send them away, so that they may go into the country and small towns round about, and get some food for themselves.

Complete Jewish Bible
Send the people away, so that they can go and buy food for themselves in the farms and towns around here."

Darby Translation
send them away that they may go into the country and villages around, and buy themselves bread, for they have not anything they can eat.

Etheridge Translation
send them away to go to the farms around us and into the villages, and buy for themselves bread, for they have nothing to eat.

Murdock Translation
Dismiss them, that they may go into the fields around us and into the villages, and may buy themselves bread; for they have nothing to eat.

King James Version (1611)
Send them away, that they may goe into the countrey round about, and into the villages, and buy themselues bread: for they haue nothing to eate.

New Living Translation
Send the crowds away so they can go to the nearby farms and villages and buy something to eat."

New Life Bible
Tell the people to go to the towns and villages and buy food for themselves."

New Revised Standard
send them away so that they may go into the surrounding country and villages and buy something for themselves to eat."

George Lamsa Translation
Dismiss them, so that they may go away to the farms and villages around us, and buy bread for themselves; for they have nothing to eat.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
dismiss them, that, departing into the surrounding hamlets and villages, they may buy themselves something to eat.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Send them away, that going into the next villages and towns, they may buy themselves meat to eat.

Revised Standard Version
send them away, to go into the country and villages round about and buy themselves something to eat."

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Let them departe, that they may go into the countrey rounde about, and into the townes, and bye them bread: for they haue nothyng to eate.

Good News Translation
Send the people away, and let them go to the nearby farms and villages in order to buy themselves something to eat."

Christian Standard Bible®
Send them away so that they can go into the surrounding countryside and villages to buy themselves something to eat.”

Hebrew Names Version
Send them away, that they may go into the surrounding country and villages, and buy themselves bread, for they have nothing to eat."

King James Version
Send them away, that they may go into the country round about, and into the villages, and buy themselves bread: for they have nothing to eat.

Lexham English Bible
Send them away so that they can go into the surrounding farms and villages and purchase something to eat for themselves."

Literal Translation
Send them away, that going away to the surrounding fields and villages they may buy bread for themselves. For they do not have what they may eat.

Young's Literal Translation
let them away, that, having gone away to the surrounding fields and villages, they may buy to themselves loaves, for what they may eat they have not.'

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
let them departe, that they maye go in to the vyllagies and townes rounde aboute, and bye them selues bred, for they haue nothinge to eate.

Mace New Testament (1729)
dismiss the company, that they may go to the neighbouring farms and villages to buy provisions, for they have nothing to eat.

New English Translation
Send them away so that they can go into the surrounding countryside and villages and buy something for themselves to eat."

New King James Version
Send them away, that they may go into the surrounding country and villages and buy themselves bread; [fn] for they have nothing to eat."

Simplified Cowboy Version
and told Jesus to send everyone back to town to eat.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
send them away so that they may go into the surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselves something to eat."

Legacy Standard Bible
send them away so that they may go into the surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselves something to eat."

Contextual Overview

³⁰ And the Apostles gathered themselues together to Iesus, and tolde him all things, both what they had done, and what they had taught. ³¹ And he sayd vnto them, Come ye apart into the wildernes, & rest a while: for there were many commers and goers, that they had not leasure to eate. ³² So they went by ship out of the way into a desart place. ³³ But the people sawe them when they departed, and many knewe him, and ran a foote thither out of all cities, and came thither before them, and assembled vnto him. ³⁴ Then Iesus went out, and sawe a great multitude, and had compassion on them, because they were like sheepe which had no shepheard: and he began to teach them many things. ³⁵ And when the day was nowe farre spent, his disciples came vnto him, saying, This is a desart place, and nowe the day is farre passed. ³⁶ Let them depart, that they may goe into the countrey and townes about, and buy them bread: for they haue nothing to eate. ³⁷ But he answered, and said vnto them, Giue yee them to eate. And they said vnto him, Shall we goe, and buy two hundreth peny worth of bread, and giue them to eate? ³⁸ Then he sayde vnto them, Howe many loaues haue ye? goe and looke. And when they knewe it, they sayd, Fiue, and two fishes. ³⁹ So he commanded them to make them all sit downe by companies vpon the greene grasse.

Bible Verse Review
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Mark 3:21, Mark 5:31, Matthew 15:23, Matthew 16:22

Reciprocal: Matthew 14:15 - his Mark 8:4 - From Luke 9:12 - when

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Send them away,.... Leave off preaching, dismiss the assembly; see Matthew 14:15;

that they may go into the country round about; or "into the fields"; that is, to the odd houses; which were here and there in the fields;

Matthew 14:15- :;

and into the villages; the little country towns that were near at hand:

and buy themselves bread, for they have nothing to eat; they brought no provisions with them, and there were none to be had in that desert place; and it was high time they had some refreshment; for the usual time of dining was past, the first evening was come, the day was on the decline, and was far spent.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See this narrative explained in the notes at Matthew 14:13-21.

Mark 6:32

By ship - By a boat or a small vessel.

Privately - Without making their plan known. They intended to go privately. It appears, however, that their intention became known, and multitudes followed them.

Mark 6:33

Afoot thither - On foot to the place where they saw them going.

Out of all cities - All cities or large towns in the neighborhood.

Mark 6:34

Much people ...as sheep ... - They had no one to teach them and guide them. The priests and scribes were proud and corrupt; they despised the common people and neglected them.

Mark 6:35

The time is far passed - The day is almost gone. It is drawing near night.

Mark 6:37

Two hundred pennyworth of bread - About twenty-eight dollars, or 6 British pounds. See the notes at Matthew 14:16. As the disciples had a common purse in which they carried their little property, consisting of the donations of their friends and money to be given to the poor (compare John 12:6; Matthew 26:8-9; Luke 8:3), it is not improbable that they had at this time about this sum in their possession. Philip - for it was he who asked the question John 6:7 - asked, with a mixture of wonder and agitation, whether they should take all their little property and spend it on a single meal? And even if we should, said he, it would not be sufficient to satisfy such a multitude. It was implied in this that, in his view, they could not provide for them if they wished to, and that it would be better to send them away than to attempt it.

Mark 6:40

In ranks - Literally, in the form of square beds in a garden. By regularly formed companies.

By hundreds and by fifties - Some companies had a hundred in them, and some groupings had fifty in them. We do not need to suppose that these were “exactly” formed or arranged, but that this was approximately the number. The expression indicates a “multitude.” There were so many that they sat down, by “hundreds” and by “fifties,” in separate companies, upon the green grass.

Mark 6:43

twelve baskets - Baskets belonging to the disciples, in which they carried their provisions, or, perhaps, belonging to some of the multitude.

Fragments - Broken pieces of the bread that remained.