Mark 8:1

1 In those days, as before, there was a great multitude, and they had nothing to eat; Jesus called his disciples unto him and said unto them,

Mark 8:1 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 8:1

In those days
The Ethiopic version reads, on that day; as if it was on the same day that the deaf man was healed; and so it might be; and on the third day from Christ's coming into those parts; and so is very properly expressed, "in those days"; see ( Mark 7:31 ) , compared with the following verse:

the multitude being very great:
for the number of men that ate, when the following miracle was wrought, were about four thousand; see ( Mark 8:9 ) . The Vulgate Latin, Arabic, and Ethiopic versions add, "again"; referring to the former miracle of the five thousand, who were fed with five loaves, and two fishes, ( Mark 6:44 ) .

And having nothing to eat;
what they might have brought with them being expended, and they in a desert, where nothing was to be had, nor bought for money:

Jesus called his disciples to him, and saith unto them;
(See Gill on Matthew 15:32).

Mark 8:1 In-Context

1 In those days, as before, there was a great multitude, and they had nothing to eat; Jesus called his disciples unto him and said unto them,

2 I have mercy on the multitude because they have now been with me three days and have nothing to eat;

3 And if I send them away fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the way, for some of them came from afar.

4 And his disciples answered him, From where can anyone satisfy these men with bread here in the wilderness?

5 And he asked them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven.