Mat 15:32, Mar 8:3 | ESV | STEP | Then Jesus called his disciples to him and said , I have compassion on the crowd because they have been with me now three days and have nothing to eat . And I am unwilling to send them away hungry , lest they faint on the way .

aFor ver. 32-39, see Mark 8:1-10; [ch. 14:14-21]

Matthew 15:32

Jesus Feeds the Four Thousand

32 ^aThen Jesus called his disciples to him and said, ^b“I have compassion on the crowd because they have been with me now three days and have nothing to eat. And I am unwilling to send them away hungry, lest they faint on the way.”

Mark 8:3

3 And if I send them away hungry to their homes, they will faint on the way. And some of them have come from far away.”