Mark 8:8-9

[8] they did eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken meat that was left seven baskets. [9] And about four thousand: and them away.

What is the context of Mark 8:8-9?

Feeding the Four Thousand (Mark 8:1-10 true)
The Feeding of Four Thousand (Mark 8:1-10 true)
Feeding 4,000 (Mark 8:1-10 true)
Jesus Feeds Four Thousand (Mark 8:1-10 true)
Jesus Feeds the Four Thousand (Mark 8:1-10 true)
Jesus Feeds More than Four Thousand People (Mark 8:1-10 true)
Jesus Feeds the Four Thousand .( A .) .( B .) .( C .) (Mark 8:1-13 true)
Four Thousand Fed (Mark 8:1-26 true)

What does Mark 8:8-9 Mean?

Contextual Meaning

Jesus" provision was again typically adequate and abundant but not excessive.

Some critics of the Bible have argued that Matthew and Mark told the story of one miraculous feeding twice and made mistakes that account for the differences in the accounts. ^[1] However the differences between the two stories are so great that most readers believe Jesus fed two different groups of people on two separate occasions.

Another debatable point is whether this crowd was Gentile, since the location was primarily Gentile, and the former crowd was Jewish, in view of its location. Probably there were more Gentiles present on this occasion and more Jews on the other. This points to a mixture of Jews and Gentiles that Jesus helped and that believed on Him, prefiguring the mixed composition of the church and the kingdom.