Mark 8:6 - Tree of Life Version

⁶ He directed the crowd to recline on the ground. After taking the seven loaves and giving thanks, He broke them and began giving them to His disciples to serve; and they served them to the crowd.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ And he commanded the people to sit down on the ground: and he took the seven loaves, and gave thanks, and brake, and gave to his disciples to set before them; and they did set them before the people.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ And He commanded the multitude to recline upon the ground, and He [then] took the seven loaves [of bread] and, having given thanks, He broke them and kept on giving them to His disciples to put before [the people], and they placed them before the crowd.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ And he commandeth the multitude to sit down on the ground: and he took the seven loaves, and having given thanks, he brake, and gave to his disciples, to set before them; and they set them before the multitude.

Common English Bible

⁶ He told the crowd to sit on the ground. He took the seven loaves, gave thanks, broke them apart, and gave them to his disciples to distribute; and they gave the bread to the crowd.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ And he instructed the crowd to sit down to eat on the ground. And taking the seven loaves, giving thanks, he broke and gave it to his disciples in order to place before them. And they placed these before the crowd.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ And taking the seven loaves, giving thanks, he broke, and gave to his disciples for to set before them; and they set them before the people.

Mark 8:6 Cross References

Matthew 26:26

Now while they were eating, Yeshua took matzah ; and after He offered the bracha, He broke and gave to the disciples and said, “Take, eat; this is My body.”

Mark 8:20

“When I broke the seven loaves for the four thousand, how many baskets of leftovers did you pick up?” “Seven,” they say to Him.

Mark 8:5

“How many loaves do you have?” Yeshua was asking them. “Seven,” they said.

Mark 8:7

They also had a few small fish and, after offering a bracha for them, He commanded these to be served as well.

Luke 12:37

“Happy are those slaves whose master finds them alert when he comes. Amen, I tell you, he will prepare himself and have them recline at table, and will come and serve them.

Luke 24:30

And it happened that when He was reclining at the table with them, He took the matzah , offered a bracha and, breaking it, gave it to them.

John 2:5

His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever He tells you.”

John 6:23

Some other boats from Tiberias came close to the place where they had eaten the bread after the Master had given thanks.

Romans 14:6

The one who observes that day does so to the Lord. The one who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and the one who abstains, abstains to the Lord, and he gives thanks to God.

Colossians 3:17

And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Yeshua, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.

1 Samuel 9:13

As soon as you enter the town, you’ll find him before he goes up to the high place to eat. For the people will not eat until he comes, because he must first bless the sacrifice—afterward the guests can eat. So now, get up, for you will find him at once.”