Mark Chapter 8 verse 3 Holy Bible
and if I send them away fasting to their home, they will faint on the way; and some of them are come from far.
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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.
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and if I should dismiss them to their home fasting, they will faint on the way; for some of them are come from far.
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And if I send them away fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the way: for divers of them came from far.
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If I send them away fasting to their home, they will faint on the way, for some of them have come a long way."
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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.'
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 3. - For divers of them came from far. These words, as they stand in the Authorized Version, might be supposed to be an observation thrown in by the evangelist himself. But the correct rendering of ἥκασι, is not "came," but have come, or rather, are come and instead of τινὲς γὰρ at the beginning of the clause, the more correct reading is καὶ τινὲς. This change makes the clause almost of necessity to be a part of our Lord's own words going before. It was not until the third day that our Lord interposed with a miracle, when the people were absolutely without food, and would therefore feel more sensibly the blessing as well as the greatness of the miracle. Their extremity was his opportunity.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(3) For divers of them.--Better, and some of them are (or, are come) from afar. The words are given as spoken by our Lord, and are in the perfect tense.
