Feeding of Four Thousand
AD 29for 1D
Relationships
Participants Jesus Christ
Locations Decapolis
Groups involved Apostles
Preceded by Healing a Crowd near Sea of Galilee
Followed by Discourse with Pharisees and Saducees
Key verses
Mark 8:6
He commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground, and he took the seven loaves. Having given thanks, he broke them, and gave them to his disciples to serve, and they served the multitude.
Mark 8:2
“I have compassion on the multitude, because they have stayed with me now three days, and have nothing to eat.
Matthew 15:32
Jesus summoned his disciples and said, “I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days and have nothing to eat. I don’t want to send them away fasting, or they might faint on the way.”
Matthew 15:36
and he took the seven loaves and the fish. He gave thanks and broke them, and gave to the disciples, and the disciples to the multitudes.
Mark 8:8
They ate, and were filled. They took up seven baskets of broken pieces that were left over.
Matthew 15:33
The disciples said to him, “Where should we get so many loaves in a deserted place as to satisfy so great a multitude?”