Mark 6:36

Modern

Dismiss the crowd so they can go to the surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselves something to eat.”

Traditional

Send them away, that they may go into the country round about, and into the villages, and buy themselves bread: for they have nothing to eat.

Literal

Dismiss them so that, having gone to the surrounding fields and villages, they might buy for themselves something to eat.”

Latin

…dimitte illos, ut euntes in proximas villas et vicos, emant sibi cibos, quos manducent.

Greek

English

Dismiss the crowd so they can go to the surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselves something to eat.”

The place where Jesus taught was remote (far from towns), but it still had farms and villages nearby where people could buy food.

The disciples finish their mission (6:6–13, 30–34). Then the story of feeding the 5,000 follows (6:35–44; see also Matthew 14:13–21; Luke 9:10–17; John 6:1–15). The feeding of the 4,000 is different enough to show these were two separate events (see Mark 8:1–10).

Matthew 15:23
But Jesus did not answer a word. So His disciples came and urged Him, “Send her away, for she keeps crying out after us.”
Mark 3:21
When His family heard about this, they went out to take custody of Him, saying, “He is out of His mind.”
Mark 5:31
His disciples answered, “You can see the crowd pressing in on You, and yet You ask, ‘Who touched Me?’”
Matthew 16:22
Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him. “Far be it from You, Lord!” he said. “This shall never happen to You!”