Trinity/After Pentecost · The Seventh Sunday after Trinity
Mark 8:1-9
The Feeding of the Four Thousand
July 19, 2026
Overview & Insights
"I have compassion on the crowd, because they have been with me now three days and have nothing to eat." (Mark 8:2)
Moved by compassion for a great crowd that has been with him three days without food, Jesus takes seven loaves and a few small fish, gives thanks, and feeds about four thousand people. All eat and are satisfied, and seven baskets of broken pieces are gathered up.
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Commentary
Enduring Word Bible Commentary Mark Chapter 8 Enduring Word · David Guzik
David Guzik's verse by verse evangelical commentary on the feeding of the four thousand and the disciples' slow understanding.
Mark 8:1 Commentaries BibleHub
A stack of classic commentators such as Barnes, Gill, and the Pulpit Commentary on the second feeding miracle.
Mark 8:1-13 Commentary Center for Excellence in Preaching
A Reformed preaching commentary that reads the feeding on largely Gentile ground as the kingdom's bread offered to outsiders.
Mark 8 Commentary Precept Austin
A deep gathering of word studies, quotations, and cross references worked verse by verse through the chapter.
Background & Word Study
Enter the Bible: Mark Enter the Bible
Luther Seminary background on Mark's authorship, setting, and its pairing of the two feeding stories.
Book of Mark Overview BibleProject
An animated walk through Mark's structure and themes to place the second feeding in the whole Gospel.
Mark 8:1 Greek Interlinear BibleHub
Greek word by word with parsing and Strong's numbers for compassion, the loaves, and the baskets.
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