Marcos 8:2

2 “Tenho compaixão desta multidão; já faz três dias que eles estão comigo e nada têm para comer.

Marcos 8:2 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 8:2

I have compassion on the multitude
Christ is a compassionate Saviour both of the bodies and souls of men: he had compassion on the souls of this multitude, and therefore had been teaching them sound doctrine and he had compassion on the bodies of many of them, and had healed them of their diseases; and his bowels yearned towards them all;

because,
says he,

they have now been with me three days, and have nothing to eat;
for if they brought any food with them, it was all spent, and they were in a wilderness, where nothing was to be got; where they had no house to go into, nor bed to lie upon, and no provisions to be bought; and in this case they had been two nights and three days; which showed great affection and zeal in these people, and a close attachment to Christ, in exposing themselves to all these difficulties and hardships, which they seemed to bear with much patience and unconcernedness. The Vulgate Latin, Syriac, Persic, and Ethiopic versions prefix the word "behold" to this clause, as expressing admiration at their stay with him so long in such a place.

Marcos 8:2 In-Context

1 Naqueles dias, outra vez reuniu-se uma grande multidão. Visto que não tinham nada para comer, Jesus chamou os seus discípulos e disse-lhes:

2 “Tenho compaixão desta multidão; já faz três dias que eles estão comigo e nada têm para comer.

3 Se eu os mandar para casa com fome, vão desfalecer no caminho, porque alguns deles vieram de longe”.

4 Os seus discípulos responderam: “Onde, neste lugar deserto, poderia alguém conseguir pão suficiente para alimentá-los?”

5 “Quantos pães vocês têm?”, perguntou Jesus.“Sete”, responderam eles.