{"id":9986,"date":"2024-08-29T08:43:32","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T12:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jesusdidsay.com\/?page_id=9986"},"modified":"2026-10-07T11:26:32","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T11:26:32","slug":"mark-chapter-8-jesus-feeds-the-four-thousand","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jesusdidsay.com\/?page_id=9986","title":{"rendered":"Mark Chapter 8 Jesus Feeds the Four Thousand"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>8\u00a0<\/strong>During those days another large crowd gathered. Since they had nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples to him and said,\u00a0<sup>2\u00a0<\/sup><mark style=\\\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#ff0000\\\" class=\\\"has-inline-color\\\">\u201cI have compassion for these people;\u00a0they have already been with me three days and have nothing to eat.\u00a0<sup>3\u00a0<\/sup>If I send them home hungry, they will collapse on the way, because some of them have come a long distance.\u201d<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><sup>4&nbsp;<\/sup>His disciples answered, \u201cBut where in this remote place can anyone get enough bread to feed them?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><sup>5\u00a0<\/sup><mark style=\\\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#ff0000\\\" class=\\\"has-inline-color\\\">\u201cHow many loaves do you have?\u201d<\/mark>\u00a0Jesus asked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSeven,\u201d they replied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><sup>6&nbsp;<\/sup>He told the crowd to sit down on the ground. When he had taken the seven loaves and given thanks, he broke them and gave them to his disciples to distribute to the people, and they did so.&nbsp;<sup>7&nbsp;<\/sup>They had a few small fish as well; he gave thanks for them also and told the disciples to distribute them.&nbsp;<sup>8&nbsp;<\/sup>The people ate and were satisfied. Afterward the disciples picked up seven basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over.&nbsp;<sup>9&nbsp;<\/sup>About four thousand were present. After he had sent them away,&nbsp;<sup>10&nbsp;<\/sup>he got into the boat with his disciples and went to the region of Dalmanutha.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><sup>11\u00a0<\/sup>The Pharisees came and began to question Jesus. To test him, they asked him for a sign from heaven.\u00a0<sup>12\u00a0<\/sup>He sighed deeply\u00a0and said,\u00a0<mark style=\\\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#ff0000\\\" class=\\\"has-inline-color\\\">\u201cWhy does this generation ask for a sign? Truly I tell you, no sign will be given to it.\u201d\u00a0<\/mark><sup>13\u00a0<\/sup>Then he left them, got back into the boat and crossed to the other side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>8\u00a0During those days another large crowd gathered. Since they had nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples to him and said,\u00a02\u00a0\u201cI have compassion for these people;\u00a0they have already been with me three days and have nothing to eat.\u00a03\u00a0If I send them home hungry, they will collapse on the way, because some of them have come [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9986","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mark Chapter 8 Jesus Feeds the Four Thousand &#8212; Jesus Did Say<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Jesus feeds four thousand\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mark Chapter 8 Jesus Feeds the Four Thousand &#8212; 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