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Luca 9:12

Listen to Luca 9:12
12 Or il giorno cominciava a declinare; e i dodici, accostatisi, gli dissero: Licenzia la moltitudine, affinché se ne vada per i villaggi e per le campagne d’intorno per albergarvi e per trovarvi da mangiare, perché qui siamo in un luogo deserto.

Luca 9:12 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 9:12

When the day began to wear away
Or "to decline", as the Vulgate Latin and Arabic versions; or "to incline", as the Syriac; that is, as the Ethiopic version renders it, "when the sun was declining" towards the "horizon" and was almost set; or "when the evening time was come", as the Persic version:

then came the twelve;
that is, "the disciples", as the Persic version; or "his disciples", as the Syriac: and

said unto him, send the multitude away, that they may go into the
towns and country round about;
the place where they were, round about the city of Bethsaida, the several adjacent houses in the fields, villages, towns, and cities:

and lodge, and get victuals;
where they might have lodging for that night, it being too far for them to reach their habitations that evening; and also that they might provide themselves with proper and sufficient food, which was not to be had in the place where they were:

for we are here in a desert place;
which afforded no conveniency for lodging, nor any supply of food.

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Luca 9:12 In-Context

10 E gli apostoli, essendo ritornati, raccontarono a Gesù tutte le cose che aveano fatte; ed egli, presili seco, si ritirò in disparte verso una città chiamata Betsaida.
11 Ma le turbe, avendolo saputo, lo seguirono; ed egli, accoltele, parlava loro del regno di Dio, e guariva quelli che avean bisogno di guarigione.
12 Or il giorno cominciava a declinare; e i dodici, accostatisi, gli dissero: Licenzia la moltitudine, affinché se ne vada per i villaggi e per le campagne d’intorno per albergarvi e per trovarvi da mangiare, perché qui siamo in un luogo deserto.
13 Ma egli disse loro: Date lor voi da mangiare. Ed essi risposero: Noi non abbiamo altro che cinque pani e due pesci; se pur non andiamo noi a comprar dei viveri per tutto questo popolo.
14 Poiché v’eran cinquemila uomini. Ed egli disse ai suoi discepoli: Fateli accomodare a cerchi d’una cinquantina.
The Riveduta Bible is in the public domain.

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