What does Mark 8:2 mean?

Mark 8:2 highlights themes such as faith and obedience when read in context.

How should I apply Mark 8:2 today?

Read the surrounding passage, compare related cross references, and turn the verse into a short prayer and concrete action.

I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now been with me three days, and have nothing to eat:

1In those days the multitude being very great, and having nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples unto him, and saith unto them,

2I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now been with me three days, and have nothing to eat:

3And if I send them away fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the way: for divers of them came from far.

4And his disciples answered him, From whence can a man satisfy these men with bread here in the wilderness?

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