Mark 6:36

Send them away, that they may go into the surrounding country and villages, and buy themselves bread, for they have nothing to eat.”

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WEBBE

Send them away, that they may go into the surrounding country and villages and buy themselves bread, for they have nothing to eat.”

BSB

Dismiss the crowd so they can go to the surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselves something to eat.”

KJV

Send them away, that they may go into the country round about, and into the villages, and buy themselves bread: for they have nothing to eat.

ASV

send them away, that they may go into the country and villages round about, and buy themselves somewhat to eat.

BBE

Send them away, so that they may go into the country and small towns round about, and get some food for themselves.

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ἀπόλυσον apoluson do dismiss G630 αὐτοὺς autous them G846 ἵνα ina that G2443 ἀπελθόντες apelthontes having gone G565 εἰς eis to G1519 τοὺς tous the G3588 κύκλῳ kuklō surrounding G2945 ἀγροὺς agrous region G68 καὶ kai and G2532 κώμας kōmas villages G2968 ἀγοράσωσιν agorasōsin they may buy G59 ἑαυτοῖς he'autois for themselves G1438 τί ti something G5101 ἄρτους artous loaves G740 γὰρ gar for G1063 φάγωσιν phagōsin may eat G5315 οὐκ ouk not G3756 ἔχουσιν echousin they have G2192

The early church

(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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