Mark 8:3

3 and if I let them go [and if I leave them] fasting into their houses, they shall fail in the way; for some of them came from far.

Mark 8:3 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 8:3

And if I send them away fasting to their own houses
Greek, "to their own house", or home; but all the Oriental versions render it as we do, in the plural, "their own houses", or habitations; and it seems from hence that they were now tasting, and at least had had no food all that day, whatever they might have the day before, which it not certain.

They will faint by the way;
for want of food their strength will be exhausted, their animal spirits will fail, their nerves will be loosened, they will not be able to perform their journey, or get to the end of it:

for divers of them came from far;
perhaps some had followed him from the coasts of Tyre and Sidon, from whence he came last; and others from Decapolis, through the midst of the borders of which he passed hither; and others from different parts, who had heard of his coming; (See Gill on Matthew 15:32).

Mark 8:3 In-Context

1 In those days, when much people [when much company of people] was with Jesus, and had not what they should eat, when his disciples were called together, he said to them [he saith to them],

2 I have ruth on the people, for lo! now the third day they abide me, and they have not what to eat; [I have ruth on the company of people, for lo! now by three days they sustain, or abide, me, and have not what they shall eat;]

3 and if I let them go [and if I leave them] fasting into their houses, they shall fail in the way; for some of them came from far.

4 And his disciples answered to him, Whereof shall a man be able to fill them with loaves here in wilderness?

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