Mark 8:1-9. The Feeding of the Four Thousand

1. the multitude being very great The effect of these miraculous cures on the inhabitants of the half-pagan district of Decapolis was very great. So widely was the fame of them spread abroad, that great multitudes brought their sick unto the Lord (Matthew 15:30), and upwards of four thousand, without counting women and children (Matthew 15:38), gathered round Him and His Apostles, and continued with Him upwards of three days (Mark 8:2).

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