31 So then the crowd was astonished when they[a] saw the mute speaking, the crippled healthy, and the lame walking, and the blind seeing, and they praised the God of Israel.

The Feeding of Four Thousand

32 And Jesus summoned his disciples and[b] said, “I have compassion on the crowd, because they have remained with me three days already and do not have anything to eat, and I do not want to send them away hungry lest they give out on the way.” 33 And the disciples said to him, “Where in this desolate place can we get[c] so much bread that such a great crowd could be satisfied?”

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 15:31 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“saw”) which is understood as temporal
  2. Matthew 15:32 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“summoned”) has been translated as a finite verb
  3. Matthew 15:33 Literally “for us”