Mark 6:31

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And he said to them, Come away by yourselves to a quiet place, and take a rest for a time. Because there were a great number coming and going, and they had no time even for food.

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  • Mark 3:20 : 20 And he went into a house. And the people came together again, so that they were not even able to take bread.
  • Mark 1:45 : 45 But he went out, and made it public, giving an account of it everywhere, so that Jesus was no longer able to go openly into a town, but was outside in the waste land; and they came to him from every part.
  • Mark 3:7 : 7 And Jesus went away with his disciples to the sea, and a great number from Galilee came after him: and from Judaea,
  • John 6:1 : 1 After these things Jesus went away to the other side of the sea of Galilee--that is, the sea of Tiberias.
  • Matt 14:13 : 13 Now when it came to the ears of Jesus, he went away from there in a boat, to a waste place by himself: and the people hearing of it, went after him on foot from the towns.

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  • Mark 6:32-38
    7 verses
    86%

    32 And they went away in the boat to a waste place by themselves.

    33 And the people saw them going, and a number of them, having knowledge who they were, went running there together on foot from all the towns, and got there before them.

    34 And he got out, and saw a great mass of people, and he had pity on them, because they were like sheep without a keeper: and he gave them teaching about a number of things.

    35 And at the end of the day, his disciples came to him and said, This place is waste land, and it is late:

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

    37 But he said to them in answer, Give them food yourselves. And they said to him, Are we to go and get bread for two hundred pence, and give it to them?

    38 And he said to them, How much bread have you? go and see. And when they had seen, they said, Five cakes of bread and two fishes.

  • Luke 9:12-13
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    12 And the day went on; and the twelve came to him and said, Send these people away so that they may go into the towns and the country round about and get resting-places and food for themselves, for we are in a waste place.

    13 But he said, Give them food yourselves. And they said, We have only five cakes of bread and two fishes, if we do not go and get food for all these people.

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    15 And when evening had come, the disciples came to him, saying, This place is waste land, and the time is now past; send the people away so that they may go into the towns and get themselves food.

    16 But Jesus said to them, There is no need for them to go away; give them food yourselves.

  • 42 And when it was day, he came out and went to a waste place; and great numbers of people came looking for him, and they came to him and would have kept him from going away.

  • 10 And the twelve, when they came back, gave him an account of what they had done. And he took them with him and went away from the people to a town named Beth-saida.

  • Mark 6:44-48
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    77%

    44 And those who took of the bread were five thousand men.

    45 And straight away he made his disciples get into the boat, and go before him to the other side to Beth-saida, while he himself sent the people away.

    46 And after he had sent them away, he went up into a mountain for prayer.

    47 And by evening, the boat was in the middle of the sea, and he by himself on the land.

    48 And seeing that they had trouble in getting their boat through the water, because the wind was against them, about the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea; and he would have gone past them;

  • 30 And the twelve came together to Jesus; and they gave him an account of all the things they had done, and all they had been teaching.

  • Mark 8:1-4
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    1 In those days again, when there was a great mass of people and they had no food, he made his disciples come to him and said to them,

    2 I have pity for these people because they have been with me now three days, and have no food;

    3 If I send them away to their houses with no food, they will be overcome by weariness on the way; and some of them have come from far.

    4 And his disciples said in answer, How will it be possible to get enough bread for these men here in a waste place?

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    22 And straight away he made the disciples get into the boat and go before him to the other side, till he had sent the people away.

    23 And after he had sent the people away, he went up into the mountain by himself for prayer: and when evening was come, he was there by himself.

  • 13 Now when it came to the ears of Jesus, he went away from there in a boat, to a waste place by himself: and the people hearing of it, went after him on foot from the towns.

  • 20 And he went into a house. And the people came together again, so that they were not even able to take bread.

  • John 6:15-17
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    15 Now when Jesus saw that the people were about to come and take him by force to make him a king, he went away again up the mountain by himself.

    16 When evening came the disciples went down to the sea;

    17 And they took a boat and went across the sea in the direction of Capernaum. By then it was dark and still Jesus had not come to them.

  • 33 And the disciples say to him, How may we get enough bread in a waste place, to give food to such a number of people?

  • 31 While this was taking place, the disciples were saying to Jesus, Master, take some food.

  • 35 And in the morning, a long time before daylight, he got up and went out to a quiet place, and there he gave himself up to prayer.

  • 9 And he made a request to his disciples to have a little boat ready for him, so that he might not be crushed by the people;

  • 10 Jesus said, Let the people be seated. Now there was much grass in that place. And those seated on the grass were about five thousand.

  • 3 Then Jesus went up the mountain and was seated there with his disciples.

  • 5 And when the disciples came to the other side they had not taken thought to get bread.

  • 53 And when they had gone across, they came to Gennesaret, and got their boat to land.

  • 22 The day after, the people who were on the other side of the sea saw that only one small boat had been there, that Jesus had not gone in that boat with the disciples, but that the disciples had gone away by themselves.

  • 7 And Jesus went away with his disciples to the sea, and a great number from Galilee came after him: and from Judaea,

  • 16 But he went away by himself to a waste place for prayer.

  • 28 Come to me, all you who are troubled and weighted down with care, and I will give you rest.

  • 35 And on that day, when the evening had come, he said to them, Let us go over to the other side.

  • 9 And there were about four thousand people: and he sent them away.

  • 18 Now when Jesus saw a great mass of people about him, he gave an order to go to the other side.

  • 13 And he went away from them, and again got into the boat and went across to the other side.

  • 22 Now it came about on one of those days that he got into a boat with his disciples; and he said to them, Let us go over to the other side of the water: and they put out the boat.

  • 24 So when the people saw that Jesus was not there, or his disciples, they got into those boats and went over to Capernaum looking for Jesus.

  • 12 And when they had had enough, Jesus said to his disciples, Take up the broken bits which are over, so that nothing may be wasted.

  • 5 Lifting up his eyes, Jesus saw a great number of people coming to where he was, and he said to Philip, Where may we get bread for all these people?