“In those days, when there was a very great multitude, and they had nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples to himself and said to them,”
Mark 8:1 (WEB)
Context Reading
1In those days, when there was a very great multitude, and they had nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples to himself and said to them, 2“I have compassion on the multitude, because they have stayed with me now three days and have nothing to eat. 3If I send them away fasting to their home, they will faint on the way, for some of them have come a long way.”