Mark - 8:7

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7 They had a few small fish. Having blessed them, he said to serve these also.

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Explanation and meaning of Mark 8:7.

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And they had a few small fishes: and he blessed, and commanded to set them also before them.
And they had a few small fishes: and having blessed them, he commanded to set these also before them.
And they had a few little fishes; and he blessed them, and commanded them to be set before them.
And they had a few small fishes, and having blessed them, he desired these also to be set before them.
And they had a few small fishes, and having blessed, he said to set them also before them;
They had also a few small fish. He blessed them, and He told His disciples to distribute these also.
And they had some small fishes; and blessing them he had them put before the people in the same way.
And they had a few small fish. And he blessed them, and he ordered them to be placed before them.
They had also a few small fish; and, after he had said the blessing, he told the disciples to serve out these as well.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

And they had a few small fishes - This is not noticed in the parallel place, Matthew 15:36.

And they had a few small fishes,.... Which they also acquainted Christ with, and brought out unto him:
and he blessed, and commanded to set them also before them. It looks, by this account, as if the fishes were blessed, and brake, and distributed separately, alter the blessing, breaking, and distribution of the bread; and so the Syriac version renders it, "upon whom also he blessed"; and the Persic thus, "and he also blessed the fishes"; but, according to Matthew they were both blessed, and brake, and distributed together, as it is highly reasonable to suppose they were both ate together; See Gill on Matthew 15:36.

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