Mark 8:3

The Feeding of the Four Thousand

2“I have compassion for this crowd, because they have already been with Me three days and have nothing to eat.3If I send them home hungry, they will faint along the way. For some of them have come a great distance.”

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Berean Standard Bible
If I send them home hungry, they will faint along the way. For some of them have come a great distance.”
American Standard Version (1901)
and if I send them away fasting to their home, they will faint on the way; and some of them are come from far.
Bible in Basic English
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.
Free Bible Version
If I send them home without food, they'll faint on the way. Some have come from a long way away.”
Geneva Bible 1599
And if I sende them away fasting to their owne houses, they woulde faint by the way: for some of them came from farre.
King James (Authorized) Version
And if I send them away fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the way: for divers of them came from far.
One Unity Resource Bible
If I send them away fasting to their home, they will faint on the way, for some of them have come a long way.”
Plain English Version
I can’t send them home like this. Some of them have walked a long way to get here, and if they start walking home now, they will get weak and fall down. We have to give them some food.”
Translation for Translators
Furthermore, if I send them home while they are still hungry, some of them will faint on the way home, because some of them have come from far away.”
Unlocked Literal Bible
If I send them away to their home without eating, they may faint on the way. Some of them have come a long way.”
Noah Webster Bible
And if I send them away fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the way: for some of them came from a distance.
World English Bible
If I send them away fasting to their home, they will faint on the way, for some of them have come a long way.”
Young's Literal Translation
and if I shall let them away fasting to their home, they will faint in the way, for certain of them are come from far.'