Mat 15:32-39 | ISV | STEP | Jesus Feeds More Than Four Thousand People Then Jesus called his disciples and said, “I have compassion for the crowd because they have already been with me for three days and have nothing to eat. I don't want to send them away without food, or they may faint on the road.”

Matthew 15:32-39

32 Jesus Feeds More Than Four Thousand People Mark 8:1-10Then Jesus called his disciples and said, “I have compassion for the crowd because they have already been with me for three days and have nothing to eat. I don't want to send them away without food, or they may faint on the road.”Mark 8:1

33 The disciples asked him, “Where in the wilderness are we to get enough bread to feed such a crowd?”2Kings 4:43

34 Jesus said to them, “How many loaves of bread do you have?”

They said, “Seven, and a few small fish.”

35 Ordering the crowd to sit down on the ground, 36 he took the seven loaves and the fish and gave thanks. Then he broke them in pieces and kept giving them to his disciples, and the disciples gave them ^{▼▼The Gk. lacks gave them} to the crowds.1Sam 9:13; Matt 14:19; Luke 22:19 37 All of them ate and were filled. Then the disciples ^{▼▼Lit. they} picked up what was left of the broken pieces, seven baskets full.

38 Now those who had eaten were four thousand men, besides women and children. 39 After he sent the crowds away, he got into a boat and went to the region of Magadan. ^{▼▼Other mss. read Magdala}Mark 8:10