The Meaning of Mark 6:36 Explained

Mark 6:36

KJV: 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.

YLT: 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.'

Darby: send them away that they may go into the country and villages around, and buy themselves bread, for they have not anything they can eat.

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

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CONTEXT: What is the Context of Mark 6:36?

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WORDS: What do the individual words in Mark 6:36 mean?

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KJV Reverse Interlinear

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. 

What does Mark 6:36 Mean?

Context Summary

Mark 6:30-56 - The Sympathy And Compassion Of Jesus
When the Apostles returned they had much to tell. Some were flushed with success, others radiant with victory over demons, others, perhaps, overstrained and weary, and all needing the quiet, holy influence of repose and silence in the Lord's company. And in those quiet hours or days, as the fever passed out of them, He taught them memorable lessons of how He would feed the world by His Church, and how His people would be safe amid the storms that swept the sea, for always he would watch them from the height, and come to them at the moment when His help was most needed. Christ sits as host at the great table of the Church, and the meager resources of His servants yield the starting point for His multiplication of bread. He bids us go and consider how little we have, that we may properly estimate the greatness of His help. Notice how the upward look precedes the breaking and giving. There is enough for each, not of bread alone, but of fish; and the disciples are refreshed by another kind of ministry. So the Lord recreates us by turning exhausted energies into new channels. What threatens to overpower us brings Christ to our side. But His footsteps must be arrested, if we would have His company. Where Jesus is, storms cease and the sick are made whole. [source]

Chapter Summary: 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

Greek Commentary for Mark 6:36

Into the country and villages round about [εις τους κυκλωι αγρους και κωμας]
The fields The villages The other Bethsaida was on the Western side of the lake (Mark 6:45). [source]
Somewhat to eat [τι παγωσιν]
Literally, what to eat, what they were to eat. Deliberative subjunctive retained in the indirect question. [source]
what to eat []
, what they were to eat. Deliberative subjunctive retained in the indirect question. [source]
what they were to eat []
. Deliberative subjunctive retained in the indirect question. [source]

Reverse Greek Commentary Search for Mark 6:36

Romans 15:19 Round about [κύκλῳ]
Not, in a circuitous track to Illyricum, but Jerusalem and the regions round it. For the phrase, see Mark 3:34; Mark 6:6, Mark 6:36; Luke 9:12; Revelation 4:6. For the facts, Acts href="/desk/?q=ac+20:1-3&sr=1">Acts 20:1-3. [source]

What do the individual words in Mark 6:36 mean?

Dismiss them that having gone to the surrounding region and villages they might buy for themselves something to eat
ἀπόλυσον αὐτούς ἵνα ἀπελθόντες εἰς τοὺς κύκλῳ ἀγροὺς καὶ κώμας ἀγοράσωσιν ἑαυτοῖς τί φάγωσιν

ἀπόλυσον  Dismiss 
Parse: Verb, Aorist Imperative Active, 2nd Person Singular
Root: ἀπολύω  
Sense: to set free.
ἵνα  that 
Parse: Conjunction
Root: ἵνα  
Sense: that, in order that, so that.
ἀπελθόντες  having  gone 
Parse: Verb, Aorist Participle Active, Nominative Masculine Plural
Root: ἀπέρχομαι  
Sense: to go away, depart.
κύκλῳ  surrounding 
Parse: Adverb
Root: κύκλῳ  
Sense: in a circle, around, round about, on all sides.
ἀγροὺς  region 
Parse: Noun, Accusative Masculine Plural
Root: ἀγρός  
Sense: land.
κώμας  villages 
Parse: Noun, Accusative Feminine Plural
Root: κώμη  
Sense: the common sleeping place to which labourers in the field return, a village.
ἀγοράσωσιν  they  might  buy 
Parse: Verb, Aorist Subjunctive Active, 3rd Person Plural
Root: ἀγοράζω  
Sense: to be in the market place, to attend it.
ἑαυτοῖς  for  themselves 
Parse: Reflexive Pronoun, Dative Masculine 3rd Person Plural
Root: ἑαυτοῦ  
Sense: himself, herself, itself, themselves.
τί  something 
Parse: Interrogative / Indefinite Pronoun, Accusative Neuter Singular
Root: τίς  
Sense: who, which, what.
φάγωσιν  to  eat 
Parse: Verb, Aorist Subjunctive Active, 3rd Person Plural
Root: ἐσθίω  
Sense: to eat.

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