Mark 6:36
New International Version
Send the people away so that they can go to the surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselves something to eat.”

New Living Translation
Send the crowds away so they can go to the nearby farms and villages and buy something to eat.”

English Standard Version
Send them away to go into the surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselves something to eat.”

Berean Standard Bible
Dismiss the crowd so they can go to the surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselves something to eat.”

Berean Literal Bible
Dismiss them, that having gone to the surrounding region and villages, they might buy for themselves something to eat."

King James Bible
Send them away, that they may go into the country round about, and into the villages, and buy themselves bread: for they have nothing to eat.

New King James Version
Send them away, that they may go into the surrounding country and villages and buy themselves bread; for they have nothing to eat.”

New American Standard Bible
send them away so that they may go into the surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselves something to eat.”

NASB 1995
send them away so that they may go into the surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselves something to eat.”

NASB 1977
send them away so that they may go into the surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselves something to eat.”

Legacy Standard Bible
send them away so that they may go into the surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselves something to eat.”

Amplified Bible
send the crowds away so that they may go into the surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselves something to eat.”

Christian Standard Bible
Send them away so that they can go into the surrounding countryside and villages to buy themselves something to eat.”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Send them away, so they can go into the surrounding countryside and villages to buy themselves something to eat.”

American Standard Version
send them away, that they may go into the country and villages round about, and buy themselves somewhat to eat.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
“Dismiss them that they may go to the market that they may go around to the villages also and buy bread for themselves, for there is nothing for them to eat.”

Contemporary English Version
Let the crowds leave, so they can go to the farms and villages near here and buy something to eat."

Douay-Rheims Bible
Send them away, that going into the next villages and towns, they may buy themselves meat to eat.

English Revised Version
send them away, that they may go into the country and villages round about, and buy themselves somewhat to eat.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Send the people to the closest farms and villages to buy themselves something to eat."

Good News Translation
Send the people away, and let them go to the nearby farms and villages in order to buy themselves something to eat."

International Standard Version
Send the crowds away so that they can go to the neighboring farms and villages and buy themselves something to eat."

Literal Standard Version
let them away, that having gone away into the surrounding fields and villages, they may buy loaves for themselves, for they do not have what they may eat.”

Majority Standard Bible
Dismiss the crowd so they can go to the surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselves food, for they have nothing to eat.”

New American Bible
Dismiss them so that they can go to the surrounding farms and villages and buy themselves something to eat.”

NET Bible
Send them away so that they can go into the surrounding countryside and villages and buy something for themselves to eat."

New Revised Standard Version
send them away so that they may go into the surrounding country and villages and buy something for themselves to eat.”

New Heart English Bible
Send them away, that they may go into the surrounding country and villages, and buy themselves something to eat."

Webster's Bible Translation
Send them away, that they may go into the country around, and into the villages, and buy themselves bread: for they have nothing to eat.

Weymouth New Testament
send them away that they may go to the farms and villages near here and buy themselves something to eat."

World English Bible
Send them away, that they may go into the surrounding country and villages and buy themselves bread, for they have nothing to eat.”

Young's Literal Translation
let them away, that, having gone away to the surrounding fields and villages, they may buy to themselves loaves, for what they may eat they have not.'

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
The Feeding of the Five Thousand
35By now the hour was already late. So the disciples came to Jesus and said, “This is a desolate place, and the hour is already late. 36Dismiss the crowd so they can go to the surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselves something to eat.” 37But Jesus told them, “You give them something to eat.” They asked Him, “Should we go out and spend two hundred denarii to give all of them bread to eat?”…

Cross References
Mark 6:35
By now the hour was already late. So the disciples came to Jesus and said, "This is a desolate place, and the hour is already late.

Mark 6:37
But Jesus told them, "You give them something to eat." They asked Him, "Should we go out and spend two hundred denarii to give all of them bread to eat?"


Treasury of Scripture

Send them away, that they may go into the country round about, and into the villages, and buy themselves bread: for they have nothing to eat.

Mark 3:21
And when his friends heard of it, they went out to lay hold on him: for they said, He is beside himself.

Mark 5:31
And his disciples said unto him, Thou seest the multitude thronging thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me?

Matthew 15:23
But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us.

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Mark 6
1. Jesus is a prophet without honor in his own country.
7. He gives the twelve power over unclean spirits.
14. Various opinions of Jesus.
16. John the Baptist is imprisoned, beheaded, and buried.
30. The apostles return from preaching.
34. The miracle of five loaves and two fishes.
45. Jesus walks on the sea;
53. and heals all who touch him.














(36) Into the country.--Better, the farms--i.e., the enclosed, cultivated land, and what belonged to it.

And buy themselves bread: for they have nothing to eat.--The better MSS. give simply, "buy themselves what they may eat."



Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
Dismiss
ἀπόλυσον (apolyson)
Verb - Aorist Imperative Active - 2nd Person Singular
Strong's 630: From apo and luo; to free fully, i.e. relieve, release, dismiss, or let die, pardon or divorce.

[the crowd]
αὐτούς (autous)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative Masculine 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

so
ἵνα (hina)
Conjunction
Strong's 2443: In order that, so that. Probably from the same as the former part of heautou; in order that.

they can go
ἀπελθόντες (apelthontes)
Verb - Aorist Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 565: From apo and erchomai; to go off, aside or behind, literally or figuratively.

to
εἰς (eis)
Preposition
Strong's 1519: A primary preposition; to or into, of place, time, or purpose; also in adverbial phrases.

the
τοὺς (tous)
Article - Accusative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

surrounding
κύκλῳ (kyklō)
Adverb
Strong's 2945: A circle, ring. As if dative case of kuklos; i.e. In a circle, i.e. all around.

countryside
ἀγροὺς (agrous)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Plural
Strong's 68: From ago; a field; genitive case, the country; specially, a farm, i.e. Hamlet.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

villages
κώμας (kōmas)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Plural
Strong's 2968: A village, country town. From keimai; a hamlet.

[and] buy
ἀγοράσωσιν (agorasōsin)
Verb - Aorist Subjunctive Active - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 59: To buy. From agora; properly, to go to market, i.e. to purchase; specially, to redeem.

themselves
ἑαυτοῖς (heautois)
Reflexive Pronoun - Dative Masculine 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 1438: Himself, herself, itself.

something
τί (ti)
Interrogative / Indefinite Pronoun - Accusative Neuter Singular
Strong's 5101: Who, which, what, why. Probably emphatic of tis; an interrogative pronoun, who, which or what.

to eat.”
φάγωσιν (phagōsin)
Verb - Aorist Subjunctive Active - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 5315: A primary verb; to eat.


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