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Mark 6:35 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" When it was late in the day, his disciples came to him and said, “This place is deserted, and it is late in the day. "
Mark 6:35
Verse in Context
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33 They saw them going, and many recognized him and ran there on foot from all the cities. They arrived before them and came together to him.
34 Jesus came out, saw a great multitude, and he had compassion on them because they were like sheep without a shepherd; and he began to teach them many things.
35 When it was late in the day, his disciples came to him and said, “This place is deserted, and it is late in the day.
36 Send them away, that they may go into the surrounding country and villages and buy themselves bread, for they have nothing to eat.”
37 But he answered them, “You give them something to eat.” They asked him, “Shall we go and buy two hundred denarii worth of bread and give them something to eat?”
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Mark 6:1
"He went out from there. He came into his own country, and his disciples followed him."
Mark 6:2
"When the Sabbath had come, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many hearing him were astonished, saying, “Where did this man get these things?” and, “What is the wisdom that is given to this man, that such mighty works come about by his hands?"
Mark 6:3
"Isn’t this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James, Joses, Judah, and Simon? Aren’t his sisters here with us?” So they were offended at him."
Mark 6:4
"Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, and among his own relatives, and in his own house.”"
Mark 6:5
"He could do no mighty work there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and healed them."
Mark 6:6
"He marveled because of their unbelief. He went around the villages teaching."
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