Mark 6:35

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.

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WEBBE

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.

BSB

By now the hour was already late. So the disciples came to Jesus and said, “This is a desolate place, and the hour is already late.

KJV

And when the day was now far spent, his disciples came unto him, and said, This is a desert place, and now the time is far passed:

ASV

And when the day was now far spent, his disciples came unto him, and said, The place is desert, and the day is now far spent;

BBE

And at the end of the day, his disciples came to him and said, This place is waste land, and it is late:

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Καὶ Kai And G2532 ἤδη ēdē already G2235 ὥρας hōras when the hour G5610 πολλῆς pollēs late G4183 γενομένης genomenēs being G1096 προσελθόντες proselthontes having come G4334 αὐτῷ autō to Him G846 οἱ hoi the G3588 μαθηταὶ mathētai disciples G3101 αὐτοῦ autou of Him G846 ἔλεγον elegon were saying G3004 ὅτι hoti that G3754 ἔρημός erēmos Desolate G2048 ἐστιν estin is G1510 ὁ ho the G3588 τόπος topos place G5117 καὶ kai and G2532 ἤδη ēdē already [it is] G2235 ὥρα hōra an hour G5610 πολλή pollē late G4183

The early church

(ubi sup.) The time being far spent, points out that it was evening. Wherefore Luke says, But the day had begun to decline.
Bede · d. 735Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)
(ubi sup.) Again, in a mystical sense, the Saviour refreshes the hungry crowds at the day's decline, because, either now that the end of the world approaches, or now that the Sun of justice has set in death for us, we are saved from wasting away in spiritual hunger. He calls the Apostles to Him at the breaking of bread, intimating that daily by them our hungry souls are fed, that is, by their letters and examples. By the five loaves are figured the Five Books of Moses, by the two fishes the Psalms and Prophets.
Bede · d. 735Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)
The Lord, placing before them, first, what is most profitable, that is, the food of the word of God, afterwards also gave the multitude food for their bodies; in beginning to relate which, the Evangelist says, And when the day was now far spent, his disciples came unto him, and said, This is a desert place.
Theophylact of Ohrid · d. 1107Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 30–44

Let not ministers do any thing or teach any thing, but what they are willing should be told to their Lord. Christ notices the frights of some, and the toils of others of his disciples, and provides rest for those that are tired, and refuge for those that are terrified. The people sought the spiritual food of Christ's word, and then he took care that they should not want bodily food. If Christ and his disciples put up with mean things, surely we may. And this miracle shows that Christ came into the world, not only to restore, but to preserve and nourish spiritual life; in him there is enough for all that come. None are sent empty away from Christ but those who come to him full of themselves. Though Christ had bread enough at command, he teaches us not to waste any of God's bounties, remembering how many are in want. We may, some time, need the fragments that we now throw away.

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