Mark 8:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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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  • Num 11:21-23 : 21 Then Moses said, The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand men on foot; and you have said, I will give them flesh to be their food for a month. 22 Are flocks and herds to be put to death for them? or are all the fish in the sea to be got together so that they may be full? 23 And the Lord said to Moses, Has the Lord's hand become short? Now you will see if my word comes true for you or not.
  • 2 Kgs 4:42-44 : 42 Now a man came from Baal-shalishah with an offering of first-fruits for the man of God, twenty barley cakes and garden fruit in his bag. And he said, Give these to the people for food. 43 But his servant said, How am I to put this before a hundred men? But he said, Give it to the people for food; for the Lord says, There will be food for them and some over. 44 So he put it before them, and they had a meal and there was more than enough, as the Lord had said.
  • 2 Kgs 7:2 : 2 Then the captain whose arm was supporting the king said to the man of God, Even if the Lord made windows in heaven, would such a thing be possible? And he said, Your eyes will see it, but you will not have a taste of the food.
  • Ps 78:19-20 : 19 They said bitter words against God, saying, Is God able to make ready a table in the waste land? 20 See, the rock was cut open by his power, so that the water came rushing out, and overflowing streams; is he able to give us bread? is he able to get meat for his people?
  • Matt 15:33 : 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?
  • Mark 6:36-37 : 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?
  • Mark 6:52 : 52 For it was not clear to them about the bread; but their hearts were hard.
  • John 6:7-9 : 7 Philip made answer, Bread to the value of two hundred pence would not be enough even to give everyone a little. 8 One of his disciples, Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, said to Jesus, 9 There is a boy here with five barley cakes and two fishes: but what is that among such a number?

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  • Matt 15:32-34
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    32 And Jesus got his disciples together and said, I have pity for the people, because they have now been with me three days and have no food: and I will not send them away without food, or they will have no strength for the journey.

    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?

    34 And Jesus says to them, How much bread have you? And they said, Seven cakes, and some small fishes.

  • Mark 8:5-9
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    5 And he put the question, How much bread have you? And they said, Seven cakes.

    6 And he made the people be seated on the earth: and he took the seven cakes and, having given praise, he gave the broken bread to his disciples to put before them; and they put it before the people.

    7 And they had some small fishes; and blessing them he had them put before the people in the same way.

    8 And they took the food, and had enough; and they took up seven baskets full of the broken bits.

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

  • Mark 8:1-3
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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.

  • Luke 9:12-14
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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.

    14 For there were about five thousand men. And he said to his disciples, Make them be seated in groups, about fifty to a group.

  • Mark 6:35-38
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    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.

  • Mark 8:19-21
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    19 When I made a division of the five cakes of bread among the five thousand, what number of baskets full of broken bits did you take up? They said to him, Twelve.

    20 And when the seven among the four thousand, what number of baskets full of broken bits did you take up? And they said to him, Seven.

    21 And he said to them, Is it still not clear to you?

  • Matt 16:8-10
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    8 And Jesus, seeing it, said, O you of little faith, why are you reasoning among yourselves, because you have no bread?

    9 Do you still not see, or keep in mind the five cakes of bread of the five thousand, and the number of baskets you took up?

    10 Or the seven cakes of bread of the four thousand, and the number of baskets you took up?

  • John 6:5
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    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?

  • Matt 14:15-20
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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.

    17 And they say to him, We have here but five cakes of bread and two fishes.

    18 And he said, Give them to me.

    19 And he gave orders for the people to be seated on the grass; and he took the five cakes of bread and the two fishes and, looking up to heaven, he said words of blessing, and made division of the food, and gave it to the disciples, and the disciples gave it to the people.

    20 And they all took of the food and had enough: and they took up twelve baskets full of broken bits which were not used.

  • John 6:7-13
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    7 Philip made answer, Bread to the value of two hundred pence would not be enough even to give everyone a little.

    8 One of his disciples, Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, said to Jesus,

    9 There is a boy here with five barley cakes and two fishes: but what is that among such a number?

    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.

    11 Then Jesus took the cakes and having given praise to God, he gave them to the people who were seated, and the fishes in the same way, as much as they had need of.

    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.

    13 So they took them up: twelve baskets full of broken bits of the five cakes which were over after the people had had enough.

  • John 4:33
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    33 So the disciples said one to another, Did anyone give him food?

  • Matt 15:36-38
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    36 And he took the seven cakes of bread and the fishes; and having given praise, he gave the broken bread to the disciples, and the disciples gave it to the people.

    37 And they all took food, and had enough; and they took up of the broken bits, seven baskets full.

    38 And there were four thousand men who took food, together with women and children.

  • Mark 6:44
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    44 And those who took of the bread were five thousand men.

  • Luke 9:16-17
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    16 And he took the five cakes of bread and the two fishes and, looking up to heaven, he said words of blessing over them, and when they had been broken, he gave them to the disciples to give to the people.

    17 And they all took the food and had enough; and they took up of the broken bits which were over, twelve baskets full.

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    16 And they said to one another, We have no bread.

  • Matt 16:5
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    5 And when the disciples came to the other side they had not taken thought to get bread.

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    5 So Jesus said to them, Children, have you taken any fish? They made answer, No.

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    14 And they had taken no thought to get bread; and they had only one cake of bread with them in the boat.

  • John 4:31
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    31 While this was taking place, the disciples were saying to Jesus, Master, take some food.