Mark 6:36

Weymouth New Testament

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

Parallel Translations

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

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.

English Standard Version
Send them away to go into the surrounding countryside 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."

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

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."

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.

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."

Geneva Bible (1587)
Let them depart, that they may goe into the countrey and townes about, and buy them bread: for they haue nothing to eate.

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.

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."

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.

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.

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."

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."

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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."

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."

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."

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.

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.

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

Contextual Overview

³⁰ When the Apostles had re-assembled round Jesus, they reported to Him all they had done and all they had taught. ³¹ Then He said to them, "Come away, all of you, to a quiet place, and rest awhile." For there were many coming and going, so that they had no time even for meals. ³² Accordingly they sailed away in the boat to a solitary place apart. ³³ But the people saw them going, and many knew them; and coming by land they ran together there from all the neighbouring towns, and arrived before them. ³⁴ So when Jesus landed, He saw a vast multitude; and His heart was moved with pity for them, because they were like sheep which have no shepherd, and He proceeded to teach them many things. ³⁵ By this time it was late; so His disciples came to Him, and said, "This is a lonely place, and the hour is now late: ³⁶ send them away that they may go to the farms and villages near here and buy themselves something to eat." ³⁷ "Give them food yourselves," He replied. "Are we," they asked, "to go and buy two hundred shillings' worth of bread and give them food?" ³⁸ "How many loaves have you?" He inquired; "go and see." So they found out, and said, "Five; and a couple of fish." ³⁹ So He directed them to make all sit down in companies on the green grass.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

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.