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Commentaries on Mark 6:36

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John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

Send them away,.... Leave off preaching, dismiss the assembly; see Matthew 14:15; that they may go into the country round about; or "into the fields"; that is, to the odd houses; which were here and there in the fields; [See comments on Mr 5:14]; and into the villages; the little country towns that were near at hand: and buy themselves bread, for they have nothing to eat; they brought no...

Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary

Matthew Henry

A great variety of observable passages we have, in this chapter, concerning our Lord Jesus, the substance of all which we had before in Matthew, but divers circumstances we have, which we did not there meet with. Here is, I. Christ contemned by his countrymen, because he was one of them, and they knew, or thought they knew, his original, ver. 1-6. II. The just power he gave his apostles over...