Mark 8: Peter's Confession and the Cost of Following

Jesus feeds four thousand, refuses the Pharisees a sign, and warns against their leaven. He heals a blind man in two stages, Peter confesses him as the Christ, and Jesus teaches that he must suffer and that followers must take up their cross.

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In Mark 8:1-9, why does Jesus say He wants to feed the crowd before sending them away?

He wanted to outdo Moses' miracle of manna in the wilderness before the peopleThe crowd had demanded a miracle from Him as proof of His authority to teachHe wanted to test whether the disciples could count and share out the food fairlyHe had compassion on them, since they had been with Him three days without food and might faint on the way